pagezero again

[Vlad GALU]

On 5/13/06, Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:
> Some time ago I reported that pagezero kernel thread sometime takes
> (what seems to me) a too large chunk of available CPU (30%) on a very
> busy web server. There were no replies :( Since then, I've reconfigured
> apache to use PHP as a fastcgi module and the problem seems to have
> gotten worse - now it *always* takes ~25-30% CPU, and my "System" time
> stat shows it (its almost always ~30%).
>
>  From what I can understand, pagezero thread fills kernel's pool of
> zeroed pages. This looks non-threteaning, but what would cause such high
> demand of zeroed pages on my system? The number of processes is almost
> constant, there are no frequent process spawnings or forks (top shows
> "last pid" to be almost constant). FastCGI processes communicate over
> UNIX sockets.
>
> Also, pagezero thread is (should be) executing at idle priority - does
> this mean it won't interfere much with machine's performance? Even if
> "0% idle" is not uncommon state?
>

   How is the system, swapping-wise ?


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