On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 7:57 PM Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have an AMD64 system[1] that has been running fine on Bullseye for a > few years, and recently following the soft freeze on Bookworm I upgraded > my system to try it out, and the system has been frequently losing > response. Initially I thought it was because of some issue of my > qemu-based Win11 virtual machine as it happens most frequently when it > was running and filed a bug report[2]. But then it happened again > without it running because some other program had slowly used up most of > the memory again, though not as frequently as the VM was running. > > Now in retrospect, when I was using Bullseye the total memory was also > mostly used up most of the time, with a few hundreds of megabytes > reported as free and a few Gigs reported as cache, and it has been > running fine. I'm not sure what has changed in Bookworm and having to > manually restart the machine is a pretty annoying and unpleasant > experience. > > Does anyone seeing a similar problem as well? What can I do to avoid > this? Any suggest is welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > Open the command prompt and run `su` to switch user to root. Then run `sync && echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` as root. This will write RAM caches to the hard drive to free up memory. You have to run this as root as sudo, my preferred method, returns a permission disabled error. > > [1] System info from inxi: > CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (-MT MCP-) > speed/min/max: 1199/1200/4679 MHz Kernel: 6.1.0-5-amd64 x86_64 Up: 7m > Mem: 4844.4/31521.3 MiB (15.4%) Storage: 476.94 GiB (54.5% used) Procs: 535 > Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.25 > Your system has 32 GB of RAM, it should not be getting used up. Run `free -h` What desktop are you using: KDE, GNOME, LXQT etc? Are you using Wayland or X11? It looks like you have a memory leak in one of your applications. Try running `top` and press `m` to sort by memory utilization. Tim > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032400 > > -- > Manphiz > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
