On Friday 19 October 2007 08:05, Richard Jelinek wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm not subscribed to this list, so if you find this question valid
> enough to answer it, please cc me. Thanks.
>
> This is what the top-output looks like on my machine after having
> copied about 550GB of data from a twofish256 crypted disk to a raid
> array:
> --------------
> Mem: 8178452k total, 8132180k used, 46272k free, 2743480k buffers
> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 4563032k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 5954 root 0 -20 0 0 0 R 62 0.0 96:42.61 loop0
> 6014 root 18 0 23744 19m 484 R 20 0.2 25:45.31 cp
> 255 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 8 0.0 10:21.82 kswapd0
> 6011 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 6 0.0 4:15.66 kjournald
> ...yadda yadda...
> --------------
>
> And what do we see here? We see loop0 and cp eating up some
> time. That's ok for me considered the work they do. kjournald is also
> ok for me, but I ask myself: why the heck has kswapd0 crunched 10+
> minutes of CPU time?
>
> I mean what does kswapd0 do?
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-kernel/65380-what-does-kswapd0-do.ht
>ml
>
> And I have no swap - right? So it should just shut up - IMHO. Or am I
> missing something?
kswapd also reclaims pagecache, not just anonymous memory. It runs
in response to memory pressure and if it wasn't around, then all
your apps requesting memory would have to do basically the same
amount of work themselves.
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