Scott James Remnant, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .
If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report: apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number> Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags: kernel-fixed-upstream kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example: kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.11 This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag: needs-upstream-testing If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags: kernel-bug-exists-upstream kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER As well, please remove the tag: needs-upstream-testing Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386554 Title: System behaved as if OOM when it had plenty to spare Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Had the weirdest behaviour today, current karmic kernel. I haven't got a swap partition or swap file configured, because I was playing with swapd and stuff earlier and hadn't turned them back on again. The system suddenly became extremely slow and unresponsive, with massive amounts of disk activity The thing is, here was the output of free at the time: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1534944 1490160 44784 0 18396 1078164 -/+ buffers/cache: 393600 1141344 Swap: 0 0 0 In other words, while it had actually 44MB free (which is still quite a lot, even though I was doing things in Firefox) - there was 1GB of cached pages sitting there - and I was doing much so most of them can't have been dirty! So why was the machine even touching the disk? It should have been able to simply purge non-dirty pages from its cache and carry on Or am I grossly missing something? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/386554/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
