On 09/17/2016 07:33 AM, Ludwig Zins wrote:
Hi all,
I had two random freezes too. One after a screenlock and the second one during using Chromium. The second freeze wasn't a complete one. Mouse moves were delayed approx. 30s and were very stuttering. I only could do a hard reset.
I noticed, that despite my memory isn't used completly (3GB/4GB) 50% of my swap space are used. Further I see chromium uses a lot of swap space (approx. 450MB). I don't know if this is an indication of the problem. I never checked the usage of swap before.
My setup: i3 4.12 py3status 3.1rc0 Chromium 53 xautolock 2.2
Regards Ludwig
I've had 2 lockups during the last week, too, but I wasn't on the machine when they happened. Not sure if it's related, but in my case, it was a desktop machine and the whole system froze (sshd wasn't answering, either). I'm not seing any indication of what's happening in journalctl, other than journalctl stops recording anything at a certain time. I've also see the increased swap usage over the last few months. I went through the swap page at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap and https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-why... and saw no change. Every morning I come down to something like this: $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15998 3345 421 240 12230 12080 Swap: 16383 1374 15009 And all my apps appear to be swapped out (Chromium, Thunderbird, even a locked KeePassX). I do run backups overnight and imagine that the buff/cache is filling up with directories and pushing out the actual apps. I'm thinking about disabling swap at this point, since I don't really do anything with the box that requires swap space, or approaches 16G of ram. Dave