Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread JD
On 11/26/2012 01:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:19:11 -0700, JD wrote: The Read/Write failures started in 3.6.X kernels, but do not appear in 3.7. 3.7 is doing the right thing by first issuing a hard reset to the sleeping drives before reading or committing the

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:19:11 -0700, JD wrote: The Read/Write failures started in 3.6.X kernels, but do not appear in 3.7. 3.7 is doing the right thing by first issuing a hard reset to the sleeping drives before reading or committing the journals. 3.6.X was not sending any hard resets to

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:19:11 -0700, JD wrote: The 50% cpu consumption by kswapd appeared first in 3.7 Thanks for that clarification. It looks like there may be multiple things causing similar problems here. 3.7-rc7 should have another patch to help this, but there are still some patch

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread JD
On 11/26/2012 12:01 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:19:05 -0700, JD wrote: This is why I decided to download source of kernel 3.7.0-rc6.git from fc19 and build it on my fc16, in the hopes of a better kernel. But no it has the kswap bug eating 50% of cpu. So was

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:19:05 -0700, JD wrote: This is why I decided to download source of kernel 3.7.0-rc6.git from fc19 and build it on my fc16, in the hopes of a better kernel. But no it has the kswap bug eating 50% of cpu. So was this happening with both 3.7 and 3.6 kernels? Th

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread JD
On 11/26/2012 06:33 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 00:20:02 -0700, JD wrote: Is this normal for the kswapd to consume 50% of cpu? And why would it do that? This is the first time I have seen this. Kernel is kernel-3.6.6-1.fc16 24 root 20 0 000 R 50.1

Re: kswapd0 consuming 50% of cpu

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 00:20:02 -0700, JD wrote: Is this normal for the kswapd to consume 50% of cpu? And why would it do that? This is the first time I have seen this. Kernel is kernel-3.6.6-1.fc16 24 root 20 0 000 R 50.1 0.0 117:08.40 kswapd0 There have been problem