Comment 28 for bug 1833281

Created attachment 258067
read_vmstat.c

On Tue 22-08-17 15:55:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:17:08 +0000 <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Sadly I haven't been able to capture this information
> > fully yet due to said unresponsiveness.

Please try to collect /proc/vmstat in the bacground and provide the
collected data. Something like

while true
do
 cp /proc/vmstat > vmstat.$(date +%s)
 sleep 1s
done

If the system turns out so busy that it won't be able to fork a process
or write the output (which you will see by checking timestamps of files
and looking for holes) then you can try the attached proggy
./read_vmstat output_file timeout output_size

Note you might need to increase the mlock rlimit to lock everything into
memory.