>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a box with Centos 4 and qmail with all pathches. since Last month
i
>> have had twice the same problem. The process kswapd0 uses all my
resources
>> of CPU and RAM memory and the consequence is that my local queue grow up
and
>> the box go slow too.
>>
>> The first time i guess the problem was the version of the kernel, so i
did
>> an upgrade form kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL to kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL
>>
>> apparently the problem was solved but today the problem came again. The
>> following snapshot shows the situation:
>>
>>
>> top - 10:53:48 up 16 days, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 119.27, 116.16,
>> 114.33
>> Tasks: 528 total, 13 running, 515 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 5.4% us, 89.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.3% id, 4.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.1%
si
>> Mem: 2075012k total, 2073404k used, 1608k free, 71056k buffers
>> Swap: 4192924k total, 4192924k used, 0k free, 36380k cached
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 60 root 17 0 0 0 0 D 75.4 0.0 585:22.79 kswapd0
>> 2164 root 15 0 1736 484 432 S 31.0 0.0 31:57.07
couriertcpd
>> 16334 vpopmail 19 0 2660 804 668 R 24.7 0.0 0:01.69 imapd
>> 2158 root 15 0 3264 488 432 S 23.4 0.0 1:17.51
couriertcpd
>> 32608 apache 16 0 21604 8440 3016 R 15.5 0.4 1:38.09 httpd
>> 15284 vpopmail 18 0 4384 1032 760 R 14.9 0.0 0:08.32
vdelivermail
>>
>>
>>
>> I really do not know what thing should i do for solve this problem
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> Mario
>
>I think this bug is your problem:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150971
>
>You can try the kernel at:
>
>http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/RHEL4/RPMS.kernel/
>
>(or I can give you version 2.6.9-6.37.EL that is in 4Update1 beta)
Hi Mr. Hughes
The kernel version 2.6.9-6.37.EL has known issues
Regards
Mario
