[arch-general] Almost system crash, users getting logged out

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:45 J. C. <julien at 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.

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