kswapd issue

[Blackburn, Marvin]

There is a know issue with the initial release of RHEL 3.0
We addressed this problem by upgrading to update 3 and the problems went
away. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Nagarjuna Rao Cherukuri
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:34 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: kswapd issue
> 
> I got the solution.
> 
> echo "1       15      30"> /proc/sys/vm/pagecache
> and 
> sysctl -p
> 
> resolved it.
> 
> What I was missing earlier was "did not run sysctl -p" after changing
> the values in /proc/sys/vm/pagecache.
> 
> Anyhow, I appreciate if somebody can provide with documents on these
> kind of kernel parameters.
> 
> thanks
> nagarjuna
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nagarjuna Rao
> Cherukuri
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 2:46 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: kswapd issue
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am running RHEL AS 3.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My "kswapd" is using heavy CPU. Is there a known issue for kswapd in
> RHEL As 3.0? I read some where that I need to adjust the values in
> "/proc/sys/vm/pagecache". Cany anybody provide me with a link for
> detailed document about setting pagecache?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> nagarjuna
> 
> 
> 
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