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Comment 173 for bug 1518457

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In , liststuff (liststuff-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

The workaround suggested above (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) doesn't work consistently for me on kernel 4.2.0 (Ubuntu 15.10) on an Acer C720 Chromebook.

I've found another workaround that works well for me so far: create a file /etc/sysctl.d/60-workaround-kswapd-allcpu.conf with the following contents and reboot:
vm.min_free_kbytes=67584

The idea behind this workaround is a post by Kirill A. Shutemov on LKML (http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.2/03564.html) and this Gallium OS bug report: https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/52

Would be interesting to know if this helps others