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I am a heavy VMware workstation 10.0.3 user, and as such I have 32GB RAM on my system. My only operating system is Arch Linux, using Unity for the desktop.

Usually when I have two virtual machines running with about 3GB RAM appointed to each, really often and at random intervals the whole system becomes unresponsive for a few seconds.

Running "top" at a terminal, the culprit seems to be the command khugepaged, which runs while the system is unresponsive at 100% CPU and then dissapears.

Is there any way to avoid this? I have googled about khugepaged, but I only seem to find ancient posts from 2011 or unanswered questions.

These are my full system specs:

• CPU: Intel i5 4570@3.2GHz


• 32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM@2400MHz


• M/B ASrock Z87 Pro 4

arch-linux vmware

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  What are your swap settings like? That kind of hang is often related to swap usage. Can you check swap next time it hangs? Does it only hang when actively swapping?
  
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  Why should it swap with 32GB RAM? It goes nowhere near exchausting the physical RAM. I have a small 1GB swap partition - since it is on an SSD and I didn't want to waste real estate. I haven't changed swappiness, I guess it is at the default value.
  
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  Well, arch has the default set to 60 which means it will start swapping long before the RAM is exhausted. I'm not saying it's swap for sure but it does seem likely. Try setting a lower value.
  
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  Oct 13 '14 at 16:44
  

  
  
  
  


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  Ok, I have set it to 5. I will let you know if it made a difference.
  
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I am a heavy VMware workstation 10.0.3 user, and as such I have 32GB RAM on my system. My only operating system is Arch Linux, using Unity for the desktop.

Usually when I have two virtual machines running with about 3GB RAM appointed to each, really often and at random intervals the whole system becomes unresponsive for a few seconds.

Running "top" at a terminal, the culprit seems to be the command khugepaged, which runs while the system is unresponsive at 100% CPU and then dissapears.

Is there any way to avoid this? I have googled about khugepaged, but I only seem to find ancient posts from 2011 or unanswered questions.

These are my full system specs:

• CPU: Intel i5 4570@3.2GHz


• 32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM@2400MHz


• M/B ASrock Z87 Pro 4

arch-linux vmware

share|improve this question

edited Oct 13 '14 at 16:09

terdon♦

134k33268449

asked Oct 13 '14 at 16:03

Angelos KyritsisAngelos Kyritsis

4112

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  What are your swap settings like? That kind of hang is often related to swap usage. Can you check swap next time it hangs? Does it only hang when actively swapping?
  
  – terdon♦
  Oct 13 '14 at 16:13
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Why should it swap with 32GB RAM? It goes nowhere near exchausting the physical RAM. I have a small 1GB swap partition - since it is on an SSD and I didn't want to waste real estate. I haven't changed swappiness, I guess it is at the default value.
  
  – Angelos Kyritsis
  Oct 13 '14 at 16:19
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Well, arch has the default set to 60 which means it will start swapping long before the RAM is exhausted. I'm not saying it's swap for sure but it does seem likely. Try setting a lower value.
  
  – terdon♦
  Oct 13 '14 at 16:44
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Ok, I have set it to 5. I will let you know if it made a difference.
  
  – Angelos Kyritsis
  Oct 13 '14 at 16:54
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  unix.stackexchange.com/questions/161858/…
  
  – mazgalici
  Jan 5 '15 at 22:21
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 2 more comments

I am a heavy VMware workstation 10.0.3 user, and as such I have 32GB RAM on my system. My only operating system is Arch Linux, using Unity for the desktop.

Usually when I have two virtual machines running with about 3GB RAM appointed to each, really often and at random intervals the whole system becomes unresponsive for a few seconds.

Running "top" at a terminal, the culprit seems to be the command khugepaged, which runs while the system is unresponsive at 100% CPU and then dissapears.

Is there any way to avoid this? I have googled about khugepaged, but I only seem to find ancient posts from 2011 or unanswered questions.

These are my full system specs:

• CPU: Intel i5 4570@3.2GHz


• 32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM@2400MHz


• M/B ASrock Z87 Pro 4

arch-linux vmware

share|improve this question

edited Oct 13 '14 at 16:09

terdon♦

134k33268449

asked Oct 13 '14 at 16:03

Angelos KyritsisAngelos Kyritsis

4112

share|improve this question

edited Oct 13 '14 at 16:09

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134k33268449

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134k33268449

edited Oct 13 '14 at 16:09

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I have similar problem on Ubuntu. The workaround I use is:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

The source of the workaround is in a Fedora bug report “khugepaged eating 100%CPU”. The bug was never fixed.

This is less drastic then disabling entire transparent_hugepage support.
The detailed explanation of what the command does can be found in the documentation of transparent hugepage support.

share|improve this answer

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

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answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

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  echo never | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
  
  – Treviño
  Nov 29 '16 at 11:48
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Treviño, may I ask what the difference is to what the author of the answer is proposing: why should one use | sudo tee in stead of >?
  
  – Joma
  Dec 1 '16 at 12:01
  

  
  
  
  


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  @Joma the sudo echo $value > output doesn't work in Ubuntu, you need to use the tee trick, or do it from sudo -s shell.
  
  – Treviño
  Dec 5 '16 at 22:41
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Seriously, I love you for that, @pawel-jasinski – the first time in 5 years that I can actually WORK with VMware without that it regularly freezes both host and guest OS.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:13
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Joma The first command has to be run from a root shell. With sudo echo X > Y, only echo X is run as root but > Y (forward output into a file) is not.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:15
  

  
  
  
  

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1

khugepaged might be the problem, try the following:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

this helped me to resolve this issue on recent arch linux...

share|improve this answer

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

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  Hi and welcome to the site! We expect answers to be a bit more detailed here. Could you perhaps edit your answer and explain what the command you suggests does and how it would help?
  
  – terdon♦
  Jan 14 '15 at 12:37
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  @ArchUser also if you are not sure this is the solution please post as a comment.
  
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10

I have similar problem on Ubuntu. The workaround I use is:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

The source of the workaround is in a Fedora bug report “khugepaged eating 100%CPU”. The bug was never fixed.

This is less drastic then disabling entire transparent_hugepage support.
The detailed explanation of what the command does can be found in the documentation of transparent hugepage support.

share|improve this answer

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  echo never | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
  
  – Treviño
  Nov 29 '16 at 11:48
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Treviño, may I ask what the difference is to what the author of the answer is proposing: why should one use | sudo tee in stead of >?
  
  – Joma
  Dec 1 '16 at 12:01
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Joma the sudo echo $value > output doesn't work in Ubuntu, you need to use the tee trick, or do it from sudo -s shell.
  
  – Treviño
  Dec 5 '16 at 22:41
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Seriously, I love you for that, @pawel-jasinski – the first time in 5 years that I can actually WORK with VMware without that it regularly freezes both host and guest OS.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:13
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Joma The first command has to be run from a root shell. With sudo echo X > Y, only echo X is run as root but > Y (forward output into a file) is not.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:15
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

10

I have similar problem on Ubuntu. The workaround I use is:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

The source of the workaround is in a Fedora bug report “khugepaged eating 100%CPU”. The bug was never fixed.

This is less drastic then disabling entire transparent_hugepage support.
The detailed explanation of what the command does can be found in the documentation of transparent hugepage support.

share|improve this answer

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  echo never | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
  
  – Treviño
  Nov 29 '16 at 11:48
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Treviño, may I ask what the difference is to what the author of the answer is proposing: why should one use | sudo tee in stead of >?
  
  – Joma
  Dec 1 '16 at 12:01
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Joma the sudo echo $value > output doesn't work in Ubuntu, you need to use the tee trick, or do it from sudo -s shell.
  
  – Treviño
  Dec 5 '16 at 22:41
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Seriously, I love you for that, @pawel-jasinski – the first time in 5 years that I can actually WORK with VMware without that it regularly freezes both host and guest OS.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:13
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Joma The first command has to be run from a root shell. With sudo echo X > Y, only echo X is run as root but > Y (forward output into a file) is not.
  
  – Simon A. Eugster
  Jul 27 '18 at 16:15
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I have similar problem on Ubuntu. The workaround I use is:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

The source of the workaround is in a Fedora bug report “khugepaged eating 100%CPU”. The bug was never fixed.

This is less drastic then disabling entire transparent_hugepage support.
The detailed explanation of what the command does can be found in the documentation of transparent hugepage support.

share|improve this answer

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

share|improve this answer

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

edited Apr 4 at 22:04

Gilles

546k12911111625

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

answered Feb 16 '15 at 17:06

Pawel JasinskiPawel Jasinski

20125

1

khugepaged might be the problem, try the following:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

this helped me to resolve this issue on recent arch linux...

share|improve this answer

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

20.5k93973

answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

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  Hi and welcome to the site! We expect answers to be a bit more detailed here. Could you perhaps edit your answer and explain what the command you suggests does and how it would help?
  
  – terdon♦
  Jan 14 '15 at 12:37
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @ArchUser also if you are not sure this is the solution please post as a comment.
  
  – vfbsilva
  Jan 14 '15 at 12:44
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

1

khugepaged might be the problem, try the following:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

this helped me to resolve this issue on recent arch linux...

share|improve this answer

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

20.5k93973

answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

211

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  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Hi and welcome to the site! We expect answers to be a bit more detailed here. Could you perhaps edit your answer and explain what the command you suggests does and how it would help?
  
  – terdon♦
  Jan 14 '15 at 12:37
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @ArchUser also if you are not sure this is the solution please post as a comment.
  
  – vfbsilva
  Jan 14 '15 at 12:44
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

khugepaged might be the problem, try the following:

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

this helped me to resolve this issue on recent arch linux...

share|improve this answer

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

20.5k93973

answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

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echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

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edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

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answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

211

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

20.5k93973

edited Jan 14 '15 at 12:51

Archemar

20.5k93973

answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

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answered Jan 14 '15 at 12:31

ArchUserArchUser

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