On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:50:33PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Can you give me a nudge? My sysctl.conf has only one active line besides > some netfilter stuff: > vm.swappiness = 1 > (This is an SSD, I don’t even have swap on this machine unless I know I > definitely need it temporarily) >
I'd say the relevant sysctl's are /proc/sys/vm/dirty* and /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, along with the filesystems and mount options you are using for the USB drives. Please post these values. Also, could you get the output of /proc/meminfo while this is happening?
