> What do you have in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? Could you try to set that > to 0 (kernel prefers to drop file-backed pages instead of swapping out > anonymous pages) and see if the swap out activity is still happening?
Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem. Setting swappiness to 0 and re-enabling my swap nearly immediately caused the whole computer to lag whenever firefox had focus -- and swap use jumped to 380M, despite having roughly five gigs free space. Turning swap back off again helped immensely. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861359 Title: swap storms kills interactive use To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1861359/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
