[plug] kswapd

Andrew Pamment apamment at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 31 16:09:15 WST 2002


I knew it! it was making weapons of mass destruction! the minute i 
clicked send it gave it back!! it realized it had been found out! well, 
now that it knows that i know, i should be right, sorry for the 
inconveniance

andrew

Andrew Pamment wrote:

> ok, um can someone help me?
> 
> why does kswapd feel the need to take over my cpu after a little while? 
> I'm just pottering along and suddenly gkrellm is at 100% cpu usage and 
> top says that it is all kswapd's fault. this is ok, except it wont give 
> it back. and i dont think it's wise to kill, but i tried anyway but it 
> wouldn't die, so i rebooted and it said my /dev/hda2 was busy so it 
> wouldn't unmount and so it needed to go through fsck. i'm using 2.4.13 
> is this an evil kernel? is it really secretly inventing weapons of mass 
> destruction with my naieve athlon who wouldn't know any better that to 
> just do as it's told? do i need to get 2.4.17?
> 
> andrew
> 




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