It appears to fix the problem, but it also appears I'll need to go to RH EL 3.0 update 4.

RH pulled in some of the 2.6 Linux kernel features into RH EL 3.0, but not the whole kernel.

Virtual memory management is mentioned as a significant improvement, so I can only hope and try it. I would like to get the kswapd CPU loop issue taken care of.

The bugzilla notes and RedHat notes say that 2.4.17 is much better, but it appears the real fix is in 2.4.21-27, (update 4), according to the notes.

I know how this is, though, you fix one thing, you break another. Welcome to O/S kernel development.

Glen Austin