Solved [intr] - system process to restart or not?

[vadimk]

Due to system overload some processes went to swap. All were identified and restarted and server went to normal except one tiny process with 10Mb of swap usage. It's name is "intr" and it seem it is a part of kernel. Is it possible to restart such process or system will crash? Should I restart the server to make "0" swap usage back or this situation is not harmful?

Thanks.

 

[MarcoB]

"intr" are the interrupts in kernel. Don't think you can restart a process like that. So rebooting is the only way to get rid of the swap. A little bit of swap is no problem though.

 

[CyberCr33p]

Try this command:

swapoff -a && swapon -a

 

[vadimk]

swapoff/on did the job perfectly! Thank you all !

 

[SirDice]

It's name is "intr" and it seem it is a part of kernel. Is it possible to restart such process or system will crash?

You can't "restart" parts of the kernel. You can only restart the whole kernel, which is basically a complete restart of the whole system.