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  1. Bug #1852001
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Comment 15 for bug 1852001

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: KDE GUI freeze on high disk IO, but disabling swap fixes it

I'm not really sure this is a bug. It sounds like expected behaviour:

1. Disk gets thrashed.
2. Any processes relying on memory swapping to/from that disk get delayed.

No particular process is doing anything wrong. Just if you want to avoid that situation then maybe don't configure swap on such a disk.

Then if you can survive without swap, problem solved. If you still need swapping for other reasons then either do so on a different disk or add more RAM, or run fewer programs.

I don't think there's any bug here(?)