In the earliest linked report of this bug the deadlock occured also with
8GB RAM (and still the case in 15.10). Will test 16.04 later when it
stabilizes.
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This is still the case in Ubuntu 15.10.
It would really be cool if this could be fixed, because it causes data loss and
regularly interrupts my work. I cannot imagine this same software runs on
servers, IoT and systems that need reliability.
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[[Ubuntu does not provide an update path for (these) Lenovo BIOS. Maybe
it would be nice to have a solution for this as well, to avoid users
being bound to buggy and outdated BIOS. To add, the given instructions
to the wiki seem very abandonned and do not (not all) apply to nowadays
ROMs of >10MB.
I put 4.2.0-040200rc3-generic under RAM stress. I still can not get to
over 5GB (of 8GB) before kswapd turns the system unusable.
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Public bug reported:
On a notebook with neither swap partition nor swap file (because of SSD
and surplus of RAM), kswapd0 suddenly runs amok and takes 100% of CPU
activity. When this happens, usually at most 5.5 of 8 GB RAM were in
use, so there is no reason to swap.
This happens so suddenly, tha
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