Re: AS3 U3 and kswapd

[Per Steinar Iversen <PerSteinar Iversen adm hio no>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> 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

Typically about 140GB.

The receiving machine is an FC1 box with a FireWire card and an external 
FireWire disk - it is a lot cheaper and more convenient than tape.

-psi