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System hangs on kswapd

Mischa Coenen

2004-08-17, 6:31 am

I have a HP Proliant 380 server with 8 Gigabyte of memory with RedHat Enterprise 2.1 AS with the 2.4.9-e40 kernel. Sometimes the systems hangs while kswapd uses all resources available so nothing works anymore.

Does anyone have an explanation for this?

Regards,

Mischa Coenen
System Engineer Unix