On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:36:43PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote: > FYI, this was seen with a 2.6.39-based kernel with no-numa, no-memcg > and swap-enabled. > If this is 2.6.39, can you try applying the commit [f06590bd: mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab] There have been a few fixes around kswapd hogging the CPU since 2.6.39. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>