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  1. Bug #159356
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Comment 10 for bug 159356

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote : Re: System freeze on high memory usage

I found during testing yesterday that I *don't* get this freezing problem when swap is hit with the i386 kernel, only the 64 bit kernel, which is a real pity since 64 bit is supposed to give better performance.

The 2.6.30.4 kernel I'm using is a big improvement over the Jaunty 2.6.28 kernel, which froze completely, but under the right conditions, 2.6.30 can still freeze X so badly that it takes a good 5 minutes just to login using ssh (and then killing the offending process takes another 5 minutes).

I tried turning swap off, but the system really doesn't like it when it runs out of memory.

Also see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13205.

So is this bug about swap or not? The reporter indicated swap wasn't being used, but some subsequent comments have been related to swap.