I really tried hard DD'ing and filling up RAM but I really can not reproduce the issue under Ubuntu 15.04 on AWS EC2 nano. On my home server boxes that issue also didn't appear on Ubuntu 15.04 either - so I really think it was introduced between 15.04 and 15.10.
Linux ip-172-31-7-84 3.19.0-20-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 29 10:10:47 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@ip-172-31-7-84:/home/ubuntu# cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=15.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=vivid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 15.04" top - 19:17:38 up 45 min, 2 users, load average: 3.52, 2.91, 1.93 Tasks: 87 total, 3 running, 84 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 36.4 us, 13.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 50.3 st KiB Mem: 499128 total, 492924 used, 6204 free, 8552 buffers KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 18664 used, 1029908 free. 136340 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11405 root 20 0 127120 124140 1360 R 36.6 24.9 3:19.84 memtester 11425 root 20 0 168080 165052 1340 R 36.0 33.1 3:09.11 memtester 11797 root 20 0 7012 2724 1660 D 16.6 0.5 0:54.64 dd 12110 root 20 0 7012 2792 1728 D 7.7 0.6 0:01.19 dd 1190 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 2.0 0.0 0:00.98 kworker/u30+ 32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 0:01.62 kswapd0 1 root 20 0 35032 2020 1476 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.68 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 rcu_sched 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh [...] Total DISK READ : 3.88 K/s | Total DISK WRITE : 67.48 M/s Actual DISK READ: 3.88 K/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 65.99 M/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE> SWAPIN IO COMMAND 12110 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 67.48 M/s 0.00 % 86.28 % dd if=/de~0096 bs=1M 1 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init 2 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthreadd] 3 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0] 5 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/0:0H] 7 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [rcu_sched] 8 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [rcu_bh] [...] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1518457 Title: kswapd0 100% CPU usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1518457/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs