I had the same issue before upgrade. I tested latest kernel
(v4.1-rc6-unstable) today. Problem still exists. I wrote simple test
program to occupy some memory. It allocates bytes increasingly +50 MB at
a time. I can never see that unused memory goes under 200 MB and whole
machine gets almost fully
Problem persists after installing kernel v4.1-rc2-vivid. System shows
the same behavior when free memory goes under ~170 mb. System becomes
stable after killing few processes before it completely freezes and
having ~200 mb of free memory stops hdd trashing. The test was performed
when swapping is d
Public bug reported:
System freeze occurs when memory is almost full and there is no chance
to kill processes. Everything is unresponsive, hdd is trashing, even ssh
connection does not show any reaction. I set vm.swappiness = 1 to
minimize swapping but those lock ups are still there. I think this
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