[CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

[Peter Kjellström]

On Saturday, May 07, 2011 09:35:48 PM Ali Ahsan wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have xeon server with 16 Gb Ram and no Swap memory.I am running
> cassandra server on two node in cluster.When there is high load on
> server kswapd0 kicks inn and take 100% cpu and make machine very slow
> and we need to restart out cassandra server.I have  latest kernel
> 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.Please let me know how can i fix this issue .Its
> hurting us badly this our production server any quick help will be
> appreciated.

There is more than one bug that causes this behaviour. A few related memory 
managent situations (possibly responsible) may actually be avoided if you add 
some swap (even if it's not used). My suggestion would be to add some swap, 
set swappiness to 0 and see what happens.

/Peter
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