On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
Upstream is pretty sure they know the causes of the kswapd issues. Two of the three patches should be in the latest rawhide kernel. So you already might see better results with that kernel. I would expect the third patch to make it in soon.
 
Thank for the heads up Bruno.
I am still booted in the 3.7.0-git kernel because
it is keeping the disks from sleeping or it is properly waking
the disks up before committing reads and writes.
 
However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an
inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore
Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X