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> I often end up having to hold down the power button for 5 seconds. If you enable the magic SysRq key, Alt+Print Screen+F will trigger the OOM killer. Quick
by minitech 9y ago
> I often end up having to hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
If you enable the magic SysRq key, Alt+Print Screen+F will trigger the OOM killer.
Quick enable for those who want it:
kernel.sysrq = 1
in /etc/sysctl.d/90-sysrq.conf.
> I blame most of it on Chromium and Firefox
I rarely have this problem with modern Firefox, but also block ads so maybe that makes the difference. Chrome is always bad, though.
- agnivade 9y agoNot all heroes wear capes.
- burfog 9y agoThis would, in some way, let me regain control. Most likely it will have killed the X11 server and dumped me to a text console login prompt. If not that, maybe a browser will be killed. The end result is roughly as bad as just rebooting, so I might as well just reboot.
- minitech 9y agoIt typically kills the browser. Sure, it gets you the same result as rebooting if you only have a browser open, but it’s much faster =)