Bug 174538

Summary: system hangs for long time due to kswapd high cpu usage
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Ramon De la Cruz <ramon.delacruz>
Component: kernelAssignee: Don Howard <dhoward>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Ramon De la Cruz 2005-11-29 20:55:25 UTC
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Description of problem:
Our JBoss Linux 2.1 server was locked up by kswapd, cpu usage was 99%. Server had to be taken offline it was not responding at all. until now we dont know the exact cause to this problem


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.9-e.49enterprise

How reproducible:
Didn't try


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Comment 1 Don Howard 2005-11-30 18:16:40 UTC
Hi Ramon

Have you had a chance to log this issue with redhat support?  If not, please
take a moment to do so.  https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/  





Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-11-30 21:25:06 UTC
Reopening/reclosing to get off of kernel-maint list.