Re: AS3 U3 and kswapd

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Per Steinar Iversen (PerSteinar Iversen adm hio no) said: 
> 
> The new 2.4.21-20.ELsmp kernel seems to go spend all its time in kswapd 
> when doing backup using tar over the network - is this a known problem? 
> The problem goes away when reverting to the 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp kernel. 
> Even though kswapd uses most of the cpu the swapspace is hardly used.
> 
> This is on a Dell 2650 with a PERC4/SC RAID controller using the megaraid2 
> driver.
> 
> The machine runs Cyrus imapd and only tar is active during the night when 
> this happened.

How large of a dataset?

Bill