The following patch from Andrea Arcangeli sound as if it may fix this problem:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg11136.html "mm: compaction: prevent kswapd compacting memory to reduce CPU usage" Grek KH added it to the proposed 2.6.28-stable patchset a week ago. Can we expect to see this patch in the Ubuntu kernel patch set? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747707 Title: kswapd0 freaks out if rsync runs on an USB disk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
