Thread: Problem with kswapd0
i have done clean install of minimal quantal xbmc , after awhile (>10mins) getting problem kswapd0 eating 100% of cpu time .. see top o/p:
i running xbmc + maverick on same box without problem.php code:xbmc@zotac:/proc$ top
top - 21:23:35 up 21:51, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.05, 1.05
tasks: 88 total, 3 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%cpu(s): 0.0 us, 50.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 49.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
kib mem: 896028 total, 752404 used, 143624 free, 16580 buffers
kib swap: 5301412 total, 8 used, 5301404 free, 518272 cached
pid user pr ni virt res shr s %cpu %mem time+ command
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 r 99.8 0.0 108:15.63 kswapd0
1329 xbmc 20 0 272m 146m 44m s 1.0 16.8 150:23.89 xbmc.bin
44 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.3 0.0 0:07.23 scsi_eh_1
1 root 20 0 3496 1504 836 s 0.0 0.2 0:00.52 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.99 ksoftirqd/0
6 root rt 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 migration/0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.26 watchdog/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 migration/1
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:01.59 ksoftirqd/1
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 watchdog/1
12 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs
15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 sync_supers
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default
19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd
20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd
21 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
23 root 0 -20 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 md
26 root 20 0 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khungtaskd
28 root 25 5 0 0 0 s 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd
xbmc@zotac:/proc$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
mem: 896028 752032 143996 0 16580 518272
-/+ buffers/cache: 217180 678848
swap: 5301412 8 5301404
have tried sudo swapoff -a , usage stays same.
google indicates not first see , may bug. options a) revert precise?, b) wait kernel fix?
tia, paul
just out of interest running encrytion. didn't have problem until enabled encryption , see when dealing large files on encrypted areas.
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