On 04/26/2018 06:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 > Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] >> Looking at the task manager in XCFE and top in the shell, the RAM and >> swap usage eventually start to climb more and more rapidly until >99% >> of RAM is in use and >99% of swap. Then the machine locks up, mouse >> pointer last. > > Well cool, that's a clue. Using top and/or htop, find out who is > consumnig all that memory. Also find out the #2 ram consumer: Sometimes > a browser can bog down and run X up to 99%. [snip]
I've been watching for a while now and through several reboots. I can't see anything in user space that consumes RAM but over time the memory usage creeps upward. Some things can make it rise rapidly, such as Qemu or VLC or Chromium or many others from time to time. Only Qemu is quite consistent, but it itself does not show unreasonable memory usage even while the system is running out of memory. I haven't seen memory usage while enabling or disabling a second display, but that often causes a freeze. So I suspect something not in user space, and the display makes me think its the graphics card driver. However, above and beyond being an all-around permanoob on most topics, I am especially ignorant about hardware. I suspect that if I could figure out 1) the appropriate drivers, and 2) how to get them from Debian, that would be the solution. /Lars _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
