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toad

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kswapd0 taking up 100% leaving system totally unresponsive

I'm experiencing this frequently on my T61

toad@archtop 513\13 ~ > uname -a
Linux archtop 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 30 08:53:25 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

on both KDE and XFCE4 (with compiz). Thinking it was down to swappiness I edited /etc/sysctl.conf as stated in the wiki but so far no joy. Not sure whether ext4 has anything to do with it, but read that loads of 64 bit systems suffer from it.

I also found (and necrobumbed) another thread, so here goes the new one.

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karol

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Re: kswapd0 taking up 100% leaving system totally unresponsive

Maybe it's http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 21597.html ?
What's the output of 'pacman -Q ntrack'?

toad

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Re: kswapd0 taking up 100% leaving system totally unresponsive

kded is not at fault but here goes:

toad@archtop 516\16 ~ > pacman -Q ntrack
ntrack 1:13-2

Oh, just read that the problematic ntrack version is 1:14.

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