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On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 10:29:11AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so kswapd0 is using 100% CPU in one of my Qubes and this makes the fan spin
> and noisy… and that Qube is hardly using any swap at all:
> 
> $ free
>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   
> available
> Mem:        1888212      776484      640712       70296      471016     
> 1031616
> Swap:       1048572         716     1047856
> 
> So I ran "sudo swapoff -a" (and "sudo swapon -a") and now zero swap is used 
> but
> kswapd0 is still busy swapping(?) and the fan is noisy and I wonder what to 
> do…
> 
> Any hints / ideas?

I've seen this some time ago and `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`
helped. No idea why it is spinning...

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Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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