This just happened to me on Gutsy with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic I have 2GiBs of ram and 1.5GiBs swap space
I was watching the system monitor at the time it happened. I wanted to start a process and to monitor its memory usage pattern. Before the process the user memory usage was at about 20% and the swap space was at about 5%. As when the process gets going the surprising the user memory dropped down to 10% and the swap usage jumped to at 10%. and then it froze, the system got into thrashing hell. I did not see a user memory usage increasing. After that I could not even logged onto a terminal. waited for about 15 minutes. and then powered off the system. (It probably has affected hard drive badly, since heavy use was underway, but I had to use the desktop, it was start of my work day). -- Thrashing hell https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
