[Bug 595047] Re: massive i/o renders the system unusable

[Pete Goodall]

Ok, from what I can tell the system is swapping way too easily.  If I'm
running Chromium + XChat I'm fine.  As soon as I open OpenOffice or
Evolution or Rhythmbox that seems to push the memory over the edge and
the system starts swapping.  If I can manage to get to a terminal in
time and kill the last application I started my system will return to
normal.  If I don't, I might as well just hard power off.  I have set
the swappiness to 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf.

Afaict there is no one program that is causing the system to swap.  It
just seems that Ubuntu is over sensitive.  There was no problem w/ this
workload with Lucid, so I don't think I'm overstressing the system.

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massive i/o renders the system unusable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595047
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