Is there a particular process using all the time?

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On Nov 1, 2013, at 12:31 PM, "Marcy Cortes" <[email protected]> 
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> We're experiencing a problem with kernel 3.0.93 (SP3).   It seems on servers 
> that are memory constrained can go into a loop doing tons of i/o - 8000+ / 
> second.
> It seems to happen with things like WAS deploys.    We may have also been 
> able to recreate use a simple perl array.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> Yes, we have a high priority SR opened with SUSE.
> 
> Oddly we have seen something like this after a kernel update on SP2.  That 
> was solved by changing vm.swappiness to something > 0.    We have put it back 
> to 60 (the default) and still get the problem.
> Upping the memory solves it, but obviously, that's not something we want to 
> be doing, especially in our constrained dev environment.
> 
> 
> Marcy 
> 
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