cro, On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:21:00AM -0000, cro wrote: > The swappiness is still killing my laptop. It seems to be explicitly > related to having Firefox running, especially if I have multiple windows > open, with lots of content.
> Killing the Firefox process solves the swap problem and returns control > of the desktop and mouse, and allows me to continue working. > Here's my 'free' status when kswapd0 is using >100% CPU. In this > situation kswapd0 is using between 90 and 120% CPU according to `top`, > and everything else is under 5%, including firefox. Out of curiosity, are you using LVM snapshots on this system? (Trying to figure out any commonalities that might explain the kernel refusing to give up its cache) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1152736 Title: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1152736/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
