Since installing 2.6.10 kswapd has decided to loop wildly on two occations. Both occations happened after starting a big compiles. Checking vmstat, I noticed a steady stream of io/bi figures ranging between 2-5K (which is about what I can get out of this box during normal operation), but no swap io(?). Manwhile the load (xload)climbs to about 10, and the system looses interactive responsiveness.
Now after the last time, after reboot, I noticed that the clock was missing 3 hours, which is about the time I left the box unattended. It might be that kswapd stresses the system to the point that the clock cannot move forward, (or the clock does something bad and kswapd gets tricked by it???). Thoughts anyone? /Anders - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
