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Saravanan S PAJANCOA, thank you for your comment. So your problem and hardware
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Solution checked in Ubuntu 14.04.1
Use vm.swappiness & vm.vfs_cache_pressure to the minimum possible
Run the below command in Terminal
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
Add the below line at the end of the file. Select File > Save. Select File >
Quit. Restart computer
vm.swappiness=1
vm.vfs_cache_pres
Tim Carr, thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, this bug report is not
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could you please file a new report with Ubuntu by executing the following in a
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I see this on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.14.1-031401-generic #201404141220 ...
kswapd0 decides to eat 100% CPU for up to 20 min at a time, for no reason that
I can see
Why is this bug Low importance? It's important to me that my CPU isn't
unavailable due to a bug!
Hardware: ASUS CHROMEBOX-M004U Desk
% grep /proc/[0-9]*/comm
% cat $(dirname $(grep kswapd /proc/[0-9]*/comm))/wchan; echo
Do this when irrational CPU usage occurs. Show wchan. If
contention_wait, there's a fix. Anyway wchan is helpful.
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Hi there, I have the same problem (as described above) on Ubuntu 14.04
LTS running on Rackspace cloud servers.
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János Milus, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be
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Same here.
Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.13.0-24-generic , HP ProLiant MicroServer , AMD
Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L processor, 8G RAM
I use it as a media server, so it handle large (1+ G) files. kswapd0 uses 100%
CPU after 5-6 days.
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same here running under hyper-v
my situation is as described above multiple times.
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I've been seeing this issue for almost a year now on an Asus Ultrabook
(Core i5, 4GB RAM, SSD). I installed and ran 13.04 until two weeks ago,
when I in-place upgraded to 13.10 (not a re-install). I've been seeing
kswapd go crazy anywhere between weekly and daily, inevitably forcing a
reboot ever
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Since Ubuntu 13.10 update, I have high cpu loads which eventually (after
5-10sec) lead to a blocked system.
Same reason: kswapd0 uses lots of CPU. Also seems mostly in conjunction with
Chrome when having many open tabs. Freeing memory by closing Chrome (or
another heavy app) in time before the
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Running fresh Ubuntu 13.10 on a new Macbook Air, I'm facing this
problem.
My user home is encrypted, maybe it is related?! When I open too many
sites with Firefox, kswapd0 goes "crazy", with Google Chrome, it does
not happen that much.
BTW, this problem persist since middle of 2011 ???
Should I
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The problem is still affecting me. I have no swap partition but at some
times computer starts lagging and disk start working as hell. top
command tells me chromium and kswapd usage is very high.
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I submitted a new report here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1185172 also i
subscribed you penalvch .
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dimovnike, have you tried maxing out the swap usage then? For me, the
problem occurs again if swap is also full.
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correction: enabling swap seems to fix this issue.
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This happens pretty often on my system too (4Gb ram dual core, SSD)
especially when running some java application together with thunderbird.
(Anyway thunderbird slowness is another story..) but for example now i
have the android emulator and android studio and as soon as I run
thunderbird - the sys
I forgot that my swap is disabled now, but this was happening with the
swap on too, let me know if you need this checked...
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I think is on pack zramswap
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I'm sorry Christopher, I downgraded to Debian Stable on my production
servers and not experiencing any more problems.
2012/10/17 Christopher M. Penalver
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A comment on the fedora bug
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712019) mentions that this
occurs when a large file (>2G) is in cache. I just started experiencing
this bug while working with large files, so this may be something to
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I'm seeing this on Precise with a computer that has weeks of uptime
between reboots. 50% wa in top (one of two cores), 100% kswapd0 in iotop
(no read of write throughput reported). This keeps happening with some
200-300 of MB free memory as reported by free -m (but significant swap
use, so total us
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Set package to linux due to similarity with bug #484045 and red hat bug:
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I don't know what's causing the issue but you're chasing a ghost if
you're trying to tune your swap/memory environment.
I don't think so - as I can see, when this happens to me, kernel copies
(whats interesting it realy copies, not moving ) content of ram to swap
( without any reason, even when 2
Reply #21 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/721896/comments/21)
[quote]
I just thought I would shed some light on this issue. kswapd0 has nothing to do
with swap space or memory. kwapd0 is the kernel process which swaps tasks. A
task is any thing that has a PID (which includes threads). Wh
Although this bug is reported on LTS 10.04, I've to report that the bug
still exists in kernel 3.1 (I'm on Debian though)! Even with swap turned
off, the system still hangs as soon as there is insufficient memory.
Stranger thing is, in iotop, it lists kswapd0 as having the most I/O%
(i.e. highest d
I can confirm. This also affects Ubuntu Linux 10.04.3 kernel: 2.6.32-34-server
#77-Ubuntu SMP. The symptoms are the same.
When applications are using only swap the disk start working like crazy. Also
everything that works on the machine slows down thereby. Even simple tasks like
ls take 20 min.
Thanks @Follow-Me and @Anthony, the hint with the kernel update really
seems to work. :-) I didn't know this was even possible in such an easy
manner with an active 10.04 installation.
Inspired by Anthony's descriptions, I found out yesterday that even the
Lucid-Updates repository[1] features 2.6.
I used the command "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa" to
access the kernel packages. I believe this places the line "deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/kernel-ppa/ppa/ubuntu lucid main" in a sources
list file, and adds the key. After running "sudo apt-get update" I could
install the 2.6.38-10 p
Yes, I also noticed that running a virtual machine in VirtualBox is
almost guaranteed to start this issue immediately – apart from the
sporadic occurrences when having the system with Firefox and Thunderbird
run for several days and doing hibernate/resume over night.
Anthony, is this the PPA you a
On a 10.04 LTS machine running 2.6.32-32-generic SMP, 32 bit. I have a
80 gig intel SSD as the system drive and a 1 terabyte samsung as storage
drive. It runs Windows XP VirtualBox instance all the time off the SSD.
It runs ZoneMinder for 4 cameras and writes to the 1 terabyte drive. So
it's alway
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This issue is appear to be gone in 2.6.39.2
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I'm not sure I have the same issue as it occur only after resume.
I got a totally insane load average but no CPU load at all. One ore 2
minutes after resume my system become non responsible. I see the HD led
continuously on but I don't know why.
Sometime, after 10mn the disk activity go down and
I just thought I would shed some light on this issue. kswapd0 has
nothing to do with swap space or memory. kwapd0 is the kernel process
which swaps tasks. A task is any thing that has a PID (which includes
threads). When kswapd0 is high, it means the kernel is spending more
time context switchi
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User Unknown, thanks for clarifying (in post #18). I have the same
issue as you and have also been wondering exactly what 100% CPU usage
means. My case is just like yours - kswapd will take over and swap like
mad even when physical memory is only half full. (swappiness setting
doesn't seem to m
As for me swap is on, a lot of free memory (~30-40% of 4G ) - but
kswapd0 swapping like insane - swapped space = users RAM size
spapping policy - /proc/sys/vm/swappiness = 7
Why it does that?
Tested (affected) kernels: 2.6.35 , 2.6.36, 2.6.37 ,2.6.37-zen , 2.6.38,
2.6.38-zen
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I think what we really need to clarify is what we all mean by
"kswapd0 using/causing 100% CPU". Reading through some of the posts here I
get the feeling that some of us (even me) might not really be talking about
the same thing as some of the others, and therefore might indeed have a
similar but co
Nobody cares about this issue, a lot of duplicationg and tickets for
other distribudion.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/484045 (same issue, Unassigned, Expired)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/689262 (looks like the
same issue, Unassigned)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/u
** Also affects: centos
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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I've facing this issue on a regular basis - 2-3 times a week for a last
year. This bug was in 10.04, now it is in 10.10 . I've tried tried to
update kernel, build my own from vanila source, build form zen sources -
every time the same result. As for me, this issue usualy happens after
suspend-resum
Oh, I will, of course, have an eye on dpkg and related processes once
this happens again. So far, it has not happened for 3 or 4 days on my
machine (knock on wood), but I also rebooted twice recently, due to the
kernel updates.
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Graham, after testing this by leaving my machine running for several
days, I could confirm that it seems not to be directly related to
suspend-to-ram. However, I got the feeling that after suspend-to-ram it
seems more likely to occur sooner. As an example: with my machine
running continuously for d
Hmm, just a thought, but what processes if any get triggered after a
suspend-to-ram is restored? I just noticed that after running sudo
swapoff -a, I now have dpkg running in a background process. Could it
actually be a bug in dpkg, meaning that some people always see it after
a suspend to ram but
Hmm, is it when automatic security updates are pushed out. It may be a
coincidence. Can anyone else confirm if they see this pattern?
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I get this bug too on my HP Pavilion DV6 laptop. For me it only ever
happens after a suspend to ram, and the symptoms are the same. My
physical ram is <50% full, but the swap space just fills up and churns
the hard disc forever. The system becomes barely usable (mouse pointer
even sticks for long l
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No, this is the only place, and basically it's the only one it should be.
The fast solution for now is just reboot the server every week or so.
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Hello Arkadiy,
have you posted this issue somewhere else and gotten a response there?
For the last two days, this kswapd0 related I/O Wait bussiness has
really been constantly p***ing me off, even though no swap space was
even mounted. And in this bug report it seems like two people don't make
eno
Oh dear... please ignore previous attachment. (Mods, please delete if
possible!)
Here is the correct file. Good night!
** Attachment added: "[Log] Output of 'top -i' in an interval of about 11
seconds, showing kswapd0 idle process and high I/O Wait"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/721
Dammit! And here is the attached log I announced...
** Attachment added: "Output of 'top -i' in an interval of about 11 seconds,
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I can now confirm that the issue seems unrelated to suspending/resuming.
After a continuous uptime of more than 90 hours, my machine just ran
into this issue again -- not for the first time within these 90 hours,
but for the first time with all previous symptoms and without getting
back to normal o
When kswapd0 starts going berserk on my machine, my swap is usually not
or barely in use (0 or a few kiB of the 3GB). However, once kswapd0 is
given some time to be wicked, it will fill up the swap considerately to
a point (normally not full but a little over half full, I think; last
night it was s
We might have different issues here, I am not getting into swap (my swap is
constant at 62 megabytes use).
It's the kswapd0 that is eating up 100% cpu on one of my cores (I have 4, so
it's not a big deal for me).
I don't suspend the server, it's up 24/7. It's just that after some time
running, k
Yeah, just did that. Sorry, hadn't seen that function before.
Arkadiy, do you suspend-to-RAM your server, as well? For me, this issue
never happened before the first suspend/resume after a full reboot.
Might be a coincidence, though, as I barely ever reboot my machine, but
suspend it to RAM almost
Please click "this bug affects me" on top of the report, so the support
could see this faster.
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Oh, thank Dog, I'm not the only one with this issue.
I had explained that issue at length in the Ubuntu forums, but never got
any reply: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1681368
I, too, noticed this behavior ever since mid-January, I think. for the
first weeks, whenever this issue occurre
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