On 12/16/2018 08:09 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, no more crashes so far. Go figure. I will watch it, though.
Since yesterday night, the machine is running Thunderbird, Firefox, Chrome, and Kodi, no issues. Perfectly responsive with that large load.
Less than 3 GB of ram are used by processes, leaving half a gig free, another half for buffers/cache, and half available. This is the normal situation under "load". More than 1 gig of swap used.
Is the laptop old enough to begin worrying about puffy capacitors? Many time these can avoid the MCE checks and later cause havoc, the leave the laptop running fine for a few days until the humidity, pressure or temp varies, phase to the moon changes, etc.. and then the gremlin rears its ugly head again. Not something easily checked on a laptop without major surgery. A desktop is a simple matter of popping the case and looking for puffy caps (the same applies to laptops, but the disassembly is much more involved...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.