Bug 83760
| Summary: | kswapd consumes cpu/memory/swap during gcc/g++ compile | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Scott Wells <swells> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I am running Red Hat linux v8.0, kernel 18-24, running on a P4 with 750+mb of ram and 1.5gb of swap. Sometimes when I 'make' a large package (such as alsa9), my computer freezes and my hard drive starts spinning. I cannot move the mouse, keyboard strokes don't work, and I can't even log on from another terminal. This problem has occurred only while I was doing a 'make (gcc/g++) on programs. It didn't seem to matter WHICH programs I was compiling. After running 'top' to spy on processes, I found that, during a make, the kernel daemon,'kswapd', was taking over 85% of the CPU time and 100% of memory and swap space. Here's the output of top: --- 3:59pm up 1 day, 2:01, 2 users, load average: 22.91, 14.28, 6.48 140 processes: 129 sleeping, 9 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.9% user, 81.7% system, 0.0% nice, 15.2% idle Mem: 764400K av, 757412K used, 6988K free, 0K shrd, 848K buff Swap: 1566328K av, 1566328K used, 0K free 10620K cached 5 root 25 0 0 0 0 RW 78.7 0.0 10:38 kswapd 10560 swells 15 0 4036 3056 844 R 1.1 0.3 1:13 xmms 10568 swells 15 0 256 140 88 S 0.6 0.0 0:12 esd 1002 root 5 -10 151M 4492 780 S < 0.3 0.5 326:28 X 15702 swells 15 0 548 512 264 R 0.3 0.0 0:24 top 6289 swells 15 0 17592 8784 1420 S 0.2 1.1 3:41 galeon-bin 25907 mailman 15 0 1856 1840 576 R 0.2 0.2 0:00 python 25912 mailman 15 0 1620 1620 532 R 0.2 0.2 0:00 python 1898 swells 15 0 38372 3840 392 D 0.1 0.5 0:23 gnome-panel 1906 swells 15 0 10140 2868 584 D 0.1 0.3 2:01 rhn-applet-gui 10647 swells 15 0 3864 1492 648 D 0.1 0.1 0:12 evolution-mail 25908 mailman 15 0 1616 1616 532 D 0.1 0.2 0:00 python 25910 mailman 15 0 1620 1596 532 R 0.1 0.2 0:00 python 25916 mailman 15 0 1376 1372 520 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 python 25922 lp 15 0 472 360 276 D 0.1 0.0 0:00 lpd 1 root 15 0 88 44 28 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init 2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd There are a few more processes, but they seem to be irrelevent When the process finishes, I get: 4:08pm up 1 day, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 7.45, 21.66, 14.78 119 processes: 114 sleeping, 3 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 98.6% idle Mem: 764400K av, 102644K used, 661756K free, 0K shrd, 2368K buff Swap: 1566328K av, 146008K used, 1420320K free 30452K cached I am using gcc/g++ version 3.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.d/l alsa9 2.Run ./configure, then make 3.It might take a few 'makes' before it happens. If so, do a 'make clean' between each make Actual Results: The computer freezes...kswapd eats all my resources. Expected Results: I have plenty of memory and 1.5gb of swap. so this should not have happened. Additional info: