Bad memory/swap management in 17.10?

[Luca Olivetti]

El 09/11/17 a les 21:12, Paul Lemmons ha escrit:
> I run a similar setup. I had to reduce my VM to be 2G to help. It was 
> the only process I really had control over. Firefox will bloat over time 
> as well. Thunderbird appears to be fairly stable. Swapping is bad no 
> matter whether it does it well or not. So, were I you I would see how 
> small I could make my VM and still have it functional. I would also look 
> at enabling the BFQ disk I/O scheduler on the 4.13 kernel (Default 
> kernel on 17.10). It is built into the kernel but not turned on by 
> default. That may help with the kernel catatonia when swapping.

No, I had it already enabled

$ cat /sys/class/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop deadline [cfq]

I cannot reduce the VM memory, but if the same setup worked fine before, 
the fact that it doesn't work now points to a problem somewhere, 
probably in the kernel.

Bye
-- 
Luca