On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:45 J. C. <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -------- > When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3 > 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. >
