Ok, from what I can tell the system is swapping way too easily. If I'm running Chromium + XChat I'm fine. As soon as I open OpenOffice or Evolution or Rhythmbox that seems to push the memory over the edge and the system starts swapping. If I can manage to get to a terminal in time and kill the last application I started my system will return to normal. If I don't, I might as well just hard power off. I have set the swappiness to 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf.
Afaict there is no one program that is causing the system to swap. It just seems that Ubuntu is over sensitive. There was no problem w/ this workload with Lucid, so I don't think I'm overstressing the system. -- massive i/o renders the system unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595047 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
