On Monday, May 09, 2011 01:11:17 PM Ali Ahsan wrote:
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD10EARS-003 Rev: 80.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Are your two drives in a RAID? cat /proc/mdstat
The WD10EARS drives are known to have some issues, having to do with both powersave and TLER (google for WDTLER), as well as 4k sector size. I have seen these issues, but that was with Fedora, and it showed up as high system load, but not as kswapd at a high percentage. Also google for WD10EARS linux percentage; the top result on that page is a Western Digital community forum post titled 'WD10EARS slow, slow, slow, slow - Western Digital Community'
If you install the sysstat package, you can use iostat to see if iowaits are your problem; I've used 'iostat -x 1' (and then set my konsole to wider.....) and monitor the await column for each device; pinned down a WD15EADS drive creating iowaits....
Hope that helps.