High CPU - kswapd0 process

[SynoMan]

Hi all,

I have a question about the CPU process called kswapd0.

It's constantly high and it pushing up my CPU usage.

As you can see my CPU is high most of the time in the day. Expect at night it goes down.

I was checking my Task scheduler and there were some integrity checks for my Hyper Backup tasks. Maybe this is it. But now I've changed it to do checks overnight, so I'll see it tomorrow. But the CPU is currently still around 70-80% on average.

Any ideas what could be wrong else are welcome.

 

[fredbert]

How's your RAM usage?

Googling kswapd0 seems to confirm my initial thoughts: swap space management for paging memory from disk and RAM.

There could be a RAM heavy process or you've a memory leak.

 

[SynoMan]

Hm, didn't cross my mind that earlier. I just restart the NAS and for now it seems all ok.

 

[SynoMan]

How's your RAM usage?

Googling kswapd0 seems to confirm my initial thoughts: swap space management for paging memory from disk and RAM.

There could be a RAM heavy process or you've a memory leak.

RAM is fine, around 50% all the time.

 

[fredbert]

Keep an eye on it and see how it goes over time.

 

[fredbert]

BTW what are you using to generate the CPU graph? I don't recognise it as Resource Monitor.

Speaking of which: in the Performance page there is the time range selector. You can check the CPU over the previous day, for example, and also Memory has both physical and swap options. Actually the other metrics may be useful too. Maybe you can tie in some scheduled activities against these views?

 

[SynoMan]

BTW what are you using to generate the CPU graph? I don't recognise it as Resource Monitor.

Grafana.

Speaking of which: in the Performance page there is the time range selector. You can check the CPU over the previous day, for example, and also Memory has both physical and swap options. Actually the other metrics may be useful too. Maybe you can tie in some scheduled activities against these views?

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[fredbert]

Grafana

of course! Not gone down that road for the hobby.

 

[SynoMan]

Grafana is nice and useful.