Re: [qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-13 Thread Kelly Dean
Chris Laprise writes: > Can Qubes access all of that RAM? Look at the total_memory figure from > 'xl info'. Yes, it can. One additional data point: after the typical one-minute boot time for a qube, it's using no swap space, and dom0 is also using no swap space, even though both do have swap

Re: [qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-13 Thread Chris Laprise
On 08/13/2018 03:26 AM, Kelly Dean wrote: Unman writes: I don't recognise this on a somewhat under powered laptop with HDD - definitely not "minutes at a time". Is there something significant about the disks that you cite, or are those just examples? Nothing significant about #21 in particul

Re: [qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-13 Thread Kelly Dean
Unman writes: > I don't recognise this on a somewhat under powered laptop with HDD - > definitely not "minutes at a time". Is there something significant about > the disks that you cite, or are those just examples? Nothing significant about #21 in particular. The thrashing procs are whichever

Re: [qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-12 Thread Unman
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:44:18AM -0400, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 08/10/2018 03:02 PM, Kelly Dean wrote: > > Has anybody else used both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0 on a system with a HD, not > > SSD? Have you noticed the disk thrashing to be far worse under 4.0? I > > suspect it might have something to d

Re: [qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-10 Thread Chris Laprise
On 08/10/2018 03:02 PM, Kelly Dean wrote: Has anybody else used both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0 on a system with a HD, not SSD? Have you noticed the disk thrashing to be far worse under 4.0? I suspect it might have something to do with the new use of LVM combining snapshots with thin provisioning. The

[qubes-users] Incredible HD thrashing on 4.0

2018-08-10 Thread Kelly Dean
Has anybody else used both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0 on a system with a HD, not SSD? Have you noticed the disk thrashing to be far worse under 4.0? I suspect it might have something to do with the new use of LVM combining snapshots with thin provisioning. The problem seems to be triggered by individual