On Tuesday 2015-09-01 11:15, Dick Streefland wrote: | I'm seeing this as well here on a number of new Dell Optiplex 7020 | machines and one older Optiplex 780, all with 8GB RAM and running | Ubuntu 14.04 in 32-bit mode.
It turned out that the dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat became zero: nr_dirty_threshold 0 nr_dirty_background_threshold 0 A workaround is: # sysctl vm.highmem_is_dirtyable=1 -- Dick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/