On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 10:08 +0100, Karol Šebesta wrote: > We have a problem on our production machine with high CPU utilization > caused by kswapd3 daemon. Server is 128GB of physical memory and 81GB > of SWAP. > > > # cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) That's a very very old kernel, I would suggest you upgrade to something that has the reclaim rewrite Rik did to deal with large memory systems. I think they're in RHEL6, but I'm sure Rik knows. Also, since you're running this dinosaur, contact RHT, they're the only ones that care about it -- but I guess you're going to get the same suggestion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
