Hi, this is still an issue for me.
When using no swap partition, this could be related to Ubuntu Bug #159356, or to the following kernel bug: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/910c08e97eb0357e But I still have the problem when using a swap partition. The system becomes extremely unresponsive, i.e. processes are influenced which don't even wait for harddisk i/o. Even the mouse pointer stalls when the swap area is used. Using cryptographic swap (via the kernel-based dm-crypt) further worsens the situation. I've written a small C++ utility that allocates memory to simulate the behaviour of an application requesting memory. This file can be compiled with "g++ memory_overcommit.cc -o memory_overcommit.bin" and run with "./memory_overcommit.bin". You could run a tool like "top" in another shell to watch the memory usage and eventually terminate the process. ** Attachment added: "memory_overcommit.cc" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23232266/memory_overcommit.cc -- Whole system lock-up because of crashing application https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283420 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
