Kswapd reclaims all cache and continues to consume CPU time even after there's lot of free memory
Issue
- Kswapd consumes increased %sys CPU usage for long period of time.
- Kswapd reclaims all Cache and still continues to run.
- Kswapd is constantly swapping processes out, even while there is lot of free memory.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- usually with vxdmp module
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