[Bug 27441] Re: Thrashing hell

[Safar]

This just happened to me on Gutsy with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic

I have 2GiBs of ram and 1.5GiBs swap space

I was watching the system monitor at the time it happened. I wanted to
start a process and to monitor its memory usage pattern.

Before the process the user memory usage was at about 20% and the swap
space was at about 5%. As when the process gets going the surprising the
user memory dropped down to 10% and the swap usage jumped to at 10%. and
then it froze, the system got into thrashing hell. I did not see a user
memory usage increasing.

After that I could not even logged onto a terminal. waited for about 15
minutes. and then powered off the system. (It probably has affected hard
drive badly, since heavy use was underway, but I had to use the desktop,
it was start of my work day).

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Thrashing hell
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27441
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