-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2019-02-05 at 13:15 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Carlos E. R. <>:
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Happens on two very different computers. One laptop, one desktop. One Intel, other nvidia, one 4 gig, other 8 gig.
No, this is not hardware related. This is a fault of the kernel, how it mishandles swap into a dead embrace.
The kernel doing a poor job of handling out of swap space is not new. I find it dangerous to let swap get more than about 1/3 full. Beyond that, something is using or leaking memory that will become fatal in a few hours to a day or two.
As I said on another post, years ago I used SuSE on a machine with 20 times the memory in swap. It might have been SuSE 7.3 or older, the package manager had a memory hole. It was a Pentium V machine, and it still responded and managed the task to completion.
Both Chromium and Firefox leak memory. When I find swap space exceeding 1/3 full, I kill the browser, and restart it as needed.
Yes, I was going to do that, but FF was responding properly so I thought "tomorrow". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXFnkvBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVpmEAniUsKyXnAx7ZV2Mcjprq KlyECpQfAKCTtGmFKywxjIetk/0G29Tt7BKVMg== =bGHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org