On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:45 J. C. <julien@mail.upb.de> wrote:
Hi list, I had an "almost crash" last night. When I got up in the morning, the session on the first six TTYs were closed, but the sessions on TTY 8-10 were still open. Having taken a look at the journal, I found a lot of activity around 4AM. That may have been preceeded by something around midnight, when my music player suddenly quit, the system informing me, that there was not enough memory. A restart of the music player was successful though.
I don't have any remote login services active and this sort of thing hasn't happened before, not on Arch since my installation a few weeks ago nor on the previous system.
My kernel version is 4.8.2, not having rebooted since the last upgrade.
The journal excerpt with the potential problem is here: https://freeshell.de/~silvain/journal.log
I'd be grateful for any help and of course eagre to supply any further info to solve this issue.
Thank you and
best wishes
Jeanette
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Do you have any tmpfs mounted that's larger than half your RAM? Your system repeatedly ran out of memory, but I can't spot any directly responsible process, so my next thought is that the memory was consumed by files on one or more tmpfs mounts.