Heavy system load by pagedaemon

[Iasen Kostov]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:28 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote:
> 	Hello
> I (probably) have some problem with a hosting server machine halting
> about once a 30 to minute (probably when the free memory falls under
> some threshold). At that moment the machine totaly halts for about 5 sec
> then resumes normal work with load average around 9-15 (depends on
> system load) from about 2-3. The system is:
> (nice try :()
 FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #7: Wed Mar 15 17:35:21 EET 2006

 ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
 CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f12  Stepping = 2

Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
   Features2=0x1<SSE3>
   AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
 real memory  = 8724152320 (8320 MB)
 avail memory = 8315379712 (7930 MB)
 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs