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On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 10:29:11AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so kswapd0 is using 100% CPU in one of my Qubes and this makes the fan spin
> and noisy… and that Qube is hardly using any swap at all:
>
> $ free
> total used free shared buff/cache available
> Mem: 1888212 776484 640712 70296 471016 1031616
> Swap: 1048572 716 1047856
>
> So I ran "sudo swapoff -a" (and "sudo swapon -a") and now zero swap is used but
> kswapd0 is still busy swapping(?) and the fan is noisy and I wonder what to do…
>
> Any hints / ideas?
I've seen this some time ago and `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`
helped. No idea why it is spinning...
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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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