From the previous data it is obvious that I had slab debugging
enabled. I usally never notice having it turned on but in this case it make a lot of difference. New numbers without slab debug. Could forking off the git tasks be causing all of this vm load? [root@jonsmirl jonsmirl]# vmstat 10 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 2 0 0 13504 91220 563280 0 0 299 232 244 426 23 18 53 6 0 2 0 0 10900 91344 565128 0 0 169 464 481 737 26 23 48 2 0 2 0 0 10804 91436 564832 0 0 196 650 478 780 25 24 49 3 0 4 0 0 13516 91512 561696 0 0 166 612 474 790 26 23 49 2 0 1 0 0 10928 91632 563548 0 0 124 471 464 789 24 25 48 2 0 1 0 0 12312 91684 562000 0 0 179 688 472 783 26 23 48 3 0 1 0 0 13232 91748 560712 0 0 51 198 445 794 25 26 48 1 0 9951967 44.5102 /home/good/vmlinux 3192131 14.2768 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8a 2207857 9.8747 /lib/libc-2.4.so 1587518 7.1002 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 663114 2.9658 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so 517463 2.3144 /lib/ld-2.4.so 435100 1.9460 /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0.2.2 430292 1.9245 /usr/local/bin/git-update-index 285157 1.2754 /usr/local/bin/git-read-tree 2331728 22.8834 copy_page_range 1076769 10.5673 unmap_vmas 667975 6.5555 page_remove_rmap 663844 6.5149 page_fault 654668 6.4249 release_pages 440547 4.3235 get_page_from_freelist 245142 2.4058 do_wp_page 174656 1.7141 vm_normal_page 155185 1.5230 __handle_mm_fault 133584 1.3110 do_page_fault 131456 1.2901 __d_lookup 94194 0.9244 __link_path_walk 92927 0.9120 flush_tlb_page 91775 0.9007 find_get_page 85927 0.8433 copy_process -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html