I changed the scheduler to from 'cfq' to 'deadline' and I increased to
commit times. That seems to have solved the problem for me as today the
system did not slow down to almost freeze anymore with the same load.
To me it somehow still is a bug as I think an OS is not supposed to slow
down that mu
Hi Theodore,
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I know the system is not swapping, at least not a lot, but as
indicated, very hard to figure out what is going on without being able
to use a terminal screen. I also set the swap space to another disk than
the disk that seems to be causing the issu
Your system sounds like its thrashing due your processes wanting to you
more memory than is available in your system. (BTW, this has nothing to
do with e2fsprogs).
Some links to pages that might be helpful:
http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2015/04/10/understanding-page-faults-and-memory-swap-in
