On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even with fairly late model linux kernels (i.e.
>> 10.04 LTS through 11.04) I've watched the kswapd start up swapping
>> hard on a machine with zero memory pressure and no need for swap.
>> Took about 2 weeks of hard running before kswapd decided to act
>> pathological.
>
> Perhaps you had some overfull partitions in tmpfs?
Nope. Didn't use tmpfs for anything on that machine. Stock Ubuntu
10.04 with Postgres just doing simple but high traffic postgres stuff.