excessive kswapd eating all CPU

[John Ellson]

On 10/15/2012 11:13 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> IIRC somebody recently mentioned really misbehaving kswapd.  In such
> case the following would be of a high interest:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/12/206
> (and the whole thread with this message).
>
> A quick search through bugzilla did not find any report on the subject.
> I possibly missed it but if not then whomever observed such misbehaviour
> should add a bug report (with the above reference to lkml).
>
>     Michal


I saw this on my rawhide, i686, kvm vhost,  again, this morning.

Generated Bug #866988
     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866988
and added a link to this thread.


After rebooting the load went away, so not sure what triggers the problem.

John