Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 03:24:48 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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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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