On 06/09/2019 15.16, James Knott wrote:
On 2019-09-06 12:50 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 09/05/2019 11:54 AM, James Knott wrote:
The notebook has Intel integrated video, 8 GB of memory and 4.88 GB swap.
Before the last lockup, swap was around 4 G. I have been running the system since this morning. Even with Windows 10 running in VirtualBox, swap is still at 0. Prior to failing, there is a lot of disk activity, but I have no idea what's causing it or swap to be used.
It sounds like you have a misbehaving app with a memory leak that is slowly malloc'ing your system to death.
Can you look at top and see if one proc has a virtual memory requirement that is off-scale high?
I have top running now. Earlier this morning, I was up to about 3.9 G swap. I then started shutting down Firefox, Seamonkey and Chromium. That dropped swap down to about 1.4 G. However, given that I'm not even using all real memory, why is swap used at all? Memory use is currently about 10 G of 16.
Just tell top to sort by swap used to find the culprit. Start "top" in a terminal, then "f" to choose fields, select "SWAP", press "sq". The change is not permanent, but it can if you wish. Has the machine being hibernated? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)