Update on this. Looks like it's an old upstream bug.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196729
But now I noticed this also happens on my laptop, but it's more "recoverable"
after something like 25/30 minutes.
Still, this problem is NOT present in older kernels than 4.10
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I tried on FreeBSD today, and this behavior is not present
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Complete system freeze even when swapping small amounts of memory
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Not necessarly, I can reproduce this sometimes with other stress tests
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Are you on a Ryzen platform too?
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Does this happen to you while using a web browser? This is my issue and
it doesn't matter which browser or which kernel. Absolute garbage. Not
sure what's happened with Ubuntu or why this is happening, but I'll try
to figure out why since clearly I'm not the only person this is
happening to and
A small update on this.
I tried another distribution with the same kernel version, and this does
not happen... I don't really know why. 0 times out of 10 this does not
happen.
Also, when this occurs, triggering the OOM with SYSRQ+F also fixes the
issues, but shows that no swap memory was being
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Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Title:
Complete system freeze even when swapping small amounts of memory
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** Tags added: apport-collected bionic
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I'm reporting this since it's reproduceable the 70% of the time.
Summary:
In different circumstances, when the systems starts to swap out RAM
memory, even small amounts, the system becomes completely
