On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:21:00AM -0000, cro wrote:
> The swappiness is still killing my laptop. It seems to be explicitly
> related to having Firefox running, especially if I have multiple windows
> open, with lots of content.
> Killing the Firefox process solves the swap problem and returns control
> of the desktop and mouse, and allows me to continue working.
> Here's my 'free' status when kswapd0 is using >100% CPU. In this
> situation kswapd0 is using between 90 and 120% CPU according to `top`,
> and everything else is under 5%, including firefox.
Out of curiosity, are you using LVM snapshots on this system? (Trying to
figure out any commonalities that might explain the kernel refusing to give
up its cache)
cro,
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:21:00AM -0000, cro wrote:
> The swappiness is still killing my laptop. It seems to be explicitly
> related to having Firefox running, especially if I have multiple windows
> open, with lots of content.
> Killing the Firefox process solves the swap problem and returns control
> of the desktop and mouse, and allows me to continue working.
> Here's my 'free' status when kswapd0 is using >100% CPU. In this
> situation kswapd0 is using between 90 and 120% CPU according to `top`,
> and everything else is under 5%, including firefox.
Out of curiosity, are you using LVM snapshots on this system? (Trying to
figure out any commonalities that might explain the kernel refusing to give
up its cache)