I found during testing yesterday that I *don't* get this freezing problem when swap is hit with the i386 kernel, only the 64 bit kernel, which is a real pity since 64 bit is supposed to give better performance.
The 2.6.30.4 kernel I'm using is a big improvement over the Jaunty 2.6.28 kernel, which froze completely, but under the right conditions, 2.6.30 can still freeze X so badly that it takes a good 5 minutes just to login using ssh (and then killing the offending process takes another 5 minutes). I tried turning swap off, but the system really doesn't like it when it runs out of memory. Also see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13205. So is this bug about swap or not? The reporter indicated swap wasn't being used, but some subsequent comments have been related to swap. ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #13205 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13205 -- System freeze on high memory usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159356 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
