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SubjectRe: why swap at all?
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:13:59PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> Incidentally, what happens when kswapd becomes a zombie? I've seen
> this a few times, and I am currently posting on a machine that has
> been up for 15 days, and which oopsed 10 or so days ago (something to
> do with nfs, but don't worry about that - the machine is running
> 2.4.20, and is not exactly up-to-date), killing kswapd.
> But I don't notice anything at all different about how the system is
> behaving. However, I haven't been doing much more than running emacs
> and mozilla recently - I haven't been running my visualisation
> software that typically stresses the VM beyond usefullness.

Check your syslog for oopsen. That's the only known reason for kswapd
to become a zombie.


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