On 08/12/2018 22.15, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'll leave the machine running as is, waiting for ideas, what to check or do - if I get the prompt back.
I got one prompt back, killed firefox, and machine responds again normally. What was going on? top - 22:37:19 up 1 day, 20:35, 5 users, load average: 1.30, 11.14, 15.73 Tasks: 287 total, 1 running, 286 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.6 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 94.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 3934240 total, 2308128 free, 1144640 used, 481472 buff/cache KiB Swap: 6289412 total, 4966268 free, 1323144 used. 2360628 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP USED S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12670 cer 20 0 1645688 228052 38636 24252 252304 S 0.662 5.797 61:36.50 chrome 12526 cer 20 0 1436224 123708 32884 20636 144344 S 0.662 3.144 85:51.69 chrome Swap usage is similar. Previously 1333384, now 1323144. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)