Comment 4 for bug 1299308

Chris,

I downloaded that image you linked and loaded it onto a usb stick and tested it that way (a little wary of direct installing it at first, it not being a final release).. however it did use the local swap space on the same drive and I was able to get kswapd0 to become active so I assumed that would be a reasonable starter test... I wasn't able to reproduce it with that release! the system did become slow when I drove it out of memory... and I did see a few seconds of mouse stutter however it never locked up permanently. Several of the applications I was using to drive up memory usage became greyed out as they became temporarily unresponsive but they returned to me and the system never locked up. I'm a little sad about the performance low performance of the whole situation however not locking up is a big plus and maybe if the applications themselves never need data on a medium as slow as a usb2 key it will not hit the brick wall quite so much... on the other hand, maybe the speed with which the ssd responded to data requests of unswapped applications will cause the issue itself...

Another variable to consider might be that I did not enable the compiz cube on the usb2 14.04 beta environment... which maybe contributes to the issue.

Anyway... I will reload the laptop shortly with the new code base and see what happens. If I continue to be unable to reproduce it in 14.04...should I update any particular tags? you mentioned specific actions based on "upstream" but no particular actions for 14.04 test unless I missed it.

Thanks very much for the time and assistance.

Zach