On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 18:59, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:24:46AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > My machine has been running too slow for months. I finally narrowed it down > > to the fact that [kscand/Normal] has totaled 55.43 minutes of CPU time while on our other > > RH 9 systems it logs 0 time. What does this mean and how can it be fixed? > > -- > Ok, I made a mistake. [kscand/Normal] accrues time if the machine is up long > enough so I am still left with the same slowness problem. But in any case what > do the kscand-s do? It's a part of the VM that scans various lists of pages looking for something to swap out. If you're not already, run the latest errata kernel (2.4.20-30), as there were some considerable improvements to background scanning done a few errata kernels ago. If you're already at that revision, you're probably pushing things as far as that kernel is going to go. The VM is a fragile beast at the best of times, and < 1 month before end of life really isn't time to start tinkering with it. Dave -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
