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I cannot remember a single occasion, where my desktop recovered when it started swapping. Always, the whole system locks up and I need to reboot. Thus, better k
by qznc 10y ago
I cannot remember a single occasion, where my desktop recovered when it started swapping. Always, the whole system locks up and I need to reboot. Thus, better kill some random processes instead of all of them.
- Razengan 10y ago> I cannot remember a single occasion, where my desktop recovered when it started swapping. ..which operating system is that?
- qznc 10y agoUbuntu
- pareidolia 10y agoSounds to me your swap is not swapon'd. I get the same behaviour when I'm not running swap and memory is depleted.
- gumoro 10y agoAlways, really? Perhaps I'm lucky but this happens quite frequently with my system (dev workstation, so browser with lots of tabs, IDE, my own app/server stuff, other "power/mem-hungry" dev tools...), and I always manage to keep it sane/healthy: - notice system starts swapping (if you do not monitor that, to me it sounds as careless as driving on the highway on 2nd gear and ignoring engine noise -- ideally the OS could proactively help here but unfortunately I don't know a good "automated" tool) - find out which process/app uses the most memory (Linux can even tell you which ones use the most swap space [1]) - decide which one you want to (gently|forcefully)-(quit|restart|whatever). Exercise judgment. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479953/how-to-find-out-which-processes-are-swapping-in-linux http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479953/how-to-find-out-wh...