Comment 4 for bug 808509

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David Nielsen (davidnielsen-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

From the posting: The reproduction case is almost always during
copying large files that kswapd pegs at 100% CPU until the file is
deleted or cache is dropped.

I believe I've seen this behaviour on earlier hardware than sandybridge, I can trigger it with good reliability using abocks image-writer to create a liveusb version of the GNOME3 isos (from gnome.org) however the hardware is question unfortunately died recently. Any large file copy operation should trigger it on sandybridge according to Mel though..