By skeddtemp
I have a droplet that I’ve been using for years to develop on, using the Cloud9 browser based IDE.
Ubuntu 16.04.6; droplet: Basic / 2 GB / 2 vCPUs
Recently whenever I open the IDE my CPU and ram shoot all the way up and I can’t do anything.
“kswapd0” is always using a lot of CPU
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 34 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 86.2 0.0 23:58.92 kswapd0 1331 mongodb 20 0 1569300 69732 0 S 8.9 3.4 2:13.68 mongod 1364 do-agent 20 0 761656 5356 0 S 7.9 0.3 0:17.46 do-agent 9281 root 20 0 25036 4556 1660 R 7.9 0.2 0:02.03 lsb_release 9339 root 20 0 24584 3552 1140 D 6.6 0.2 0:01.36 lsb_release 2225 root 20 0 2085900 1.156g 0 R 5.9 59.2 4:56.69 node 2737 root 20 0 975528 107704 360 R 5.2 5.3 0:37.65 node 1571 root 20 0 2109816 92096 0 R 4.3 4.5 1:23.70 node /home/losp 1578 root 20 0 743092 17068 0 R 4.3 0.8 0:35.52 node /home/losp 2006 root 20 0 11416 1180 800 S 3.0 0.1 0:41.36 bash 1 root 20 0 37656 3112 1440 R 2.6 0.2 0:02.15 systemd 9367 root 20 0 92676 2524 1608 S 2.6 0.1 0:00.63 sshd 9405 root 20 0 59124 296 0 R 2.3 0.0 0:00.07 sshd 1731 root 20 0 93140 2900 1664 S 1.6 0.1 0:15.02 sshd 1410 root 20 0 277084 712 0 R 1.3 0.0 0:00.07 polkitd 1370 message+ 20 0 42896 1704 1212 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.09 dbus-daemon 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.78 kworker/0:0 687 root 20 0 29736 2308 1972 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.22 systemd-journal 1348 root 20 0 274580 760 16 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.52 accounts-daemon 1389 root 20 0 28540 1072 768 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.03 systemd-logind 1545 nginx 10 -10 196376 6788 384 S 0.3 0.3 0:04.95 nginx 3457 root 20 0 40524 2204 1532 R 0.3 0.1 0:04.63 top
what do i do, how do i diagnose this
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Hello @skeddtemp
Researching on this kswapd0, manages virtual memory and may be having issues due to moving processes to SWAP too frequently, causing CPU spikes and decreased system performance.
I recommend tweaking your SWAP Settings if you haven’t done this yet. This should improve the performance of the droplet.
References
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-16-04
Hope that this helps!
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