[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-12-27 Thread Viktor Pal
I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 about a month ago and haven't experienced the mentioned behavior with swap disabled since then. Haven't tried with swap enabled though. It is very likely that this bug has been fixed. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Fix Released -- You receive

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-12-25 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506454 T

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-26 Thread Viktor Pal
I will update to Ubuntu 15.10 in the next 1-2 weeks. It has a pretty recent kernel (4.2). If I'm still able to reproduce this issue there I will install the latest kernel from the link. Will get back with the results. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Viktor Pal, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from the very top line at the top of the page from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D (the release names are irrelevant for testing, and please do not test the daily folder)? Install instructions are availabl

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-22 Thread Viktor Pal
As an additional note AFAIK this only happened when VirtualBox was running. Although I don't know if this is related to the fact that VirtualBox is running or the fact that there is small amount of free memory available on the system when it is running. And again I would like to emphasize that th

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-22 Thread Viktor Pal
Hi it seems that updating BIOS has not solved this issue as my Desktop just crashed with the new BIOS. See the requested output here. $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date L01 v02.65 07/13/2015 What happens is that my desktop completely freezes and the only thing

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-16 Thread Viktor Pal
Have updated BIOS to v02.65. Thanks for the suggestion, lets see if it helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506454 Title: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources To manage

[Bug 1506454] Re: kswapd kills the whole OS by eaing up resources

2015-10-16 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Viktor Pal, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5387476&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4060 an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2.65). If you update to this following https://help.ubun