Use 100% time proc when drop caches is enabled

Bug #1704623 reported by asu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Expired
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add line vm.drop_caches=3 which disable caches, rstart pc

On top will see unattended-upgr broken on 100% load.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90ubuntu0.6
Uname: Linux 4.6.2+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sun Jul 16 11:38:24 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-29 (442 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
asu (corcodel-marian) wrote :
Balint Reczey (rbalint)
Changed in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

I'm wondering how unattended-upgrade breaks.
The whole system may be running slower without caching and seeing running u-u at 100% when there are many updates to install does not sound like a breakage.

Changed in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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