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  1. Bug #1518457
  2. Comment #210

Comment 210 for bug 1518457

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JPT (j-p-t) wrote :

Still not solved.
Linux 5.0.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 13:05:32 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This system has i5-9600K and 16 GB RAM, no swap.

This happens everytime I run a VirtualbBox VM.
The VM has got 4 GB RAM.
I updated my VMs to current default settings for Windows and reduced CPU count to 1.
This solved the issue until I ran video compression on the host system concurrently.
So the problem still happens when CPU usage is high and a VM is running.
This time I succeeded in rescuing the system avoiding a reboot.
I switched to console mode and waited a lot of time (like an hour) until I was able to kill VirtualBox.
What I saw was: kswapd0 was running crazy.