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Bug#820955: marked as done (linux: When memory all used, cursor lags, keyboard does not respond, I am forced to reboot)

Your message dated Sat, 16 Oct 2021 05:02:26 -0700 (PDT)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #820955,
regarding linux: When memory all used, cursor lags, keyboard does not respond, I am forced to reboot
to be marked as done.

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Source: linux
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I was running some heavy computations, until cursor started severely lagging,
keyboard stopped responding, HDD usage led was perpetually on (swap is turned
off) and I had to hit the power button.

Notice this happened to me multiple times through the years on different
machines (including ana Asus x53Sv laptop and a HP Z230 desktop) and different
distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Mint).

When this happened in the past, System Monitor showed that I was using 100% of
memory. I even turned swap off with no effect on the issue.

I am confident I can replicate this if necessary. I am happy to provide additional
information.

I believe the bug is the same reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1555351
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356
A guy there states that he has been experiencing this problem forever (he started
using linux in 1999, although he does not report when he first experienced the
issue), and this is consistent with my experience (I started using it in 2007,
although I cannot remember when I first experienced the issue).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hi

This bug was filed for a very old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution.

If you can reproduce it with

- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports

please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.

Regards,
Salvatore

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