Hello, Am Sonntag, 3. Februar 2019, 14:33:24 CET schrieb Carlos E. R.:
After several days running, this morning it locked as soon as I changed workspaces. I noticed kswapd0 was busy long time, and that firefox had about 10 gigs of virtual memory. The disk activity led was solid blue. I couldn't find out more, the machine froze and had to be hard rebooted.
It's probably not the answer you are looking for, but I'll propose it nevertheless: Disable your swap. Obviously that means that you'll have less "memory" available, but IMHO that has some advantages: - you avoid the "swap to death" situation (freezing the system while swapping) - programs eating up RAM get killed earlier, and you get an OOM killer log entry that tells you which process ate too much RAM Personally, I don't use swap since years [1], and I'm completely happy with it. I remember a few rare cases where a program ate up memory and was killed, but the alternative would have been to let it swap, fill the swap, and then being killed - after freezing the system (aka "swap to death") for a while ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] My previous laptop had 4 GB RAM, this one 16 GB - both had a full server stack (LAMP, Dovecot etc.) + KDE running -- Aber was macht [KDE] bei mir? Es zeigt xterms und Hintergrundbilder an. Aus meiner Sicht ist letzteres die Funktion, die es am besten beherrscht. Sehr schöne Bilder sind das. [Lars Müller in opensuse-de] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org