> On 06/18/2017 10:01 AM, qubenix wrote:
>> 'Vincent Adultman' via qubes-users:
>>> This happens to me sometimes on the current Xen/Linux versions. When I
>>> look at top in the offending VM its "kswapd" that has gone berserk.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Chris Laprise,
tas...@openmailbox.org
>>>
https://twitter.com/ttaskett
>>> PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886
>>>
>>> --
>>> I can confirm I've also experienced this with kswapd in either
>>> sys-net or sys-firewall, can't remember which. Only way around it I
>>> found was to reboot the VM.
>>>
>>
>> I have also experience with kswapd going crazy in a Debian vm with
>> intense I/O and CPU. Kswapd persisted to rock the cpu even after all the
>> software was done, for about 10 minutes, until I shutdown the vm. Seems
>> to be a rare condition though because I experience it only 1/50 times
>> with this vm.
>>
>
> I recently switched to kernel 4.9 and I can't remember it happening
> since then. So maybe the problem was with the 4.8 kernel I was using...
>
I haven't noticed it since 4.9 either. I just recently switched as well.