[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1794763] Re: High utilisation of memory freezes Ubuntu completely for a long time, with an extremely high access to the hard disk

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[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1794763] Re: High utilisation of memory freezes Ubuntu completely for a long time, with an extremely high access to the hard disk

Joseph, thanks for your answer. I just tried latest upstream kernel: $ uname -sr Linux 4.19.0-041900rc6-generic And I tried to reproduce the problem and it still happens, unfortunately. ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirm

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1794763] [NEW] High utilisation of memory freezes Ubuntu completely for a long time, with an extremely high access to the hard disk

Public bug reported: I observed this occasionally on Ubuntu 16.04 and very frequently on Ubuntu 18.04 (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS) I can reproduce it with a regular use of Chromium, Firefox or LibreOffice, by instance. In a Ubuntu system, when there is "little" free memory, if I open some new tabs on t