Hi all,
I'm running FC12 with a 2.6.35.4 vanilla kernel on a x86_64.
When I opened Google Chrome last (I don't use it a lot), the computer
froze completely for a minute, no mouse movement, no response to
CTRL-Alt-F2, and the clock didn't change. The hard disk was highly
active. After that
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 03:07:34PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote:
Any idea what happened? In particular, why triggered the swap for no
apparent reason?
Just a guess, but it might sub-optimal VM swapiness settings. See
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt:
swappiness
This control is used to define how
Here's how I did an unattended install with no screen or keyboard:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/122505/how-do-i-create-completely-unattended-install-for-ubuntu/122506http://askubuntu.com/questions/122505/how-do-i-create-completely-unattended-install-for-ubuntu/122506#comment149734_122506
On
Thanks, Muli.
It looks like this is the one. Even though this article is pretty old,
http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/
it looks like it explains what happened: mapped_ratio reached some 60%,
vm_swappiness was 60, and attempting to load the libraries for Chrome
required a lot of memory clearing
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012, Eli Billauer wrote about Memory swap when there's
apparently plenty of free RAM:
When I opened Google Chrome last (I don't use it a lot), the
computer froze completely for a minute, no mouse movement, no
response to CTRL-Alt-F2, and the clock didn't change. The hard disk
I was slightly ambiguous there: I launched Chrome (it wasn't running
previously).
And even though I didn't check the amount of swap space before, it never
exceeds a few MBs.
So it definitely looks like the swappiness parameter was the thing to
fix on a system that shouldn't ever use swap
On Monday, June 25th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Camuel Gilyadov
(קמואל גלעדוב), founder @ LiteStack (litestack.com), talk about:
ZeroVM: lightweight containers based on Google Native Client
Abstract
How cloud-friendly is traditional virtualization? As a matter of fact, all
traditional
