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Re: kswapd taking 100% CPU - only there's no swap?

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>
To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List" <nahant-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: kswapd taking 100% CPU - only there's no swap?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:24:21 +0100

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 16:27 -0800, Don MacAskill wrote:
> We have an 8-way RHEL4 AS system (4 dual-core Opterons) with no swap 
> (because swapping is still broken for DB loads.  It swaps the DB out in 
> preference of disk cache).

zero swap is a really bad idea. At least make a 10Mb or so swap.

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