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  1. Bug #1013807
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1013807

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garyr (garyrich) wrote :

Using
4.4.0-040400rc5-lowlatency #201512140221 SMP PREEMPT
kernel has made a dramatic change to this computer. So much so that I can't think of a test that would restrict it to the hugepage problem. Even under heavy memory load it hits the disk drive far far less. Something has certainly been fixed. Loading memory to 90% and then pointing Firefox to www.netflix.com (as of 12/18/2015 a huge resource hog) still causes a stumble. Gnome system monitor (for instance) still goes grey and stops updating and the mouse refuses to move from one display to the second one -- but it only does that for a few seconds and then back to normal.

Something has certainly been fixed and I'm going to tag it fixed upstream. I'm not 100% sure what has been fixed though.