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-linux-feels-slow-and-how-to-fix-that
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
