Hello,
I can't access the bug, what is the status ? Thanks, -O. On 2013-04-06 16:44, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 04/05/2013 07:32 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: > >> After switching back to the older kernel, I can confirm that the swap usage has returned to normal, even during the backup time 6am-8am. (See attached graph) I'm wondering if this has anything to do with NUMA, which sometimes prefers to use swap rather than memory that is slightly slower than the currently used memory. I am using a single Phenom II 955 processor (quad core) on an ASUS M4N68T motherboard and SL6.4 upgraded from 6.3 > > Switching back fixed it for me too. Max swap usage reduced from 100% to > 25%, all dumps completed on time. I suppose NUMA could be a factor, > this is a Xeon L5520 system. I haven't seen this large swap usage on my > other older hardware, although I only have the one machine writing > backups to local disk, remote machines send the backup via the network > to this host. > > I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949166
