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  1. Bug #1518457
  2. Comment #119

Comment 119 for bug 1518457

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José Martínez (xosemp) wrote :

I wrote a tiny batch script to reliably reproduce the bug. It mounts a tmpfs filesystem and writes a file that fills 98% of the currently available memory.

You can also pass it a custom percentage, like: ./fillmem.sh 95

<95% is hit and miss on a newly launched instance. 98% (the default) has inmediately spun kswapd to 100% on all of my tests.

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@andrewtappert: steal time means the T2 instance has run out of CPU credits. They launch with just enough credits to burst the CPU to 100% for 30 minutes.

I'm always getting SYS time on kswapd, until I hit the T2 credits limit.