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  1. Bug #1152736
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 1152736

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

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)