Using 4.4.0-040400rc5-lowlatency #201512140221 SMP PREEMPT kernel has made a dramatic change to this computer. So much so that I can't think of a test that would restrict it to the hugepage problem. Even under heavy memory load it hits the disk drive far far less. Something has certainly been fixed. Loading memory to 90% and then pointing Firefox to www.netflix.com (as of 12/18/2015 a huge resource hog) still causes a stumble. Gnome system monitor (for instance) still goes grey and stops updating and the mouse refuses to move from one display to the second one -- but it only does that for a few seconds and then back to normal.
Something has certainly been fixed and I'm going to tag it fixed upstream. I'm not 100% sure what has been fixed though. ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013807 Title: transparent hugepages and thrashing on amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1013807/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
