On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:54:33PM -0400, Matt Connell wrote > On Sun, 2024-06-09 at 06:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > the system suddenly froze, repeating the syllable "ake", "ake", > > "ake", "ake", "ake", "ake", ad infinitum. > > I have a system that is a little lean and when this happens it is > invariably because I ran the system out of memory and noticed too late > to rectify it.
What is "lean"? My system has 16 gigs ram. I just ran a "Youtube torture test" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC6uJDNf64 a 1080P video of a roller coaster ride in fullscreen. My monitor is 1920x1080. I checked the Youtube settings to confirm that it was indeed pushing 1080P to my system. I dropped the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen to bring up the toolbar and hovered over the "memory tooltip". It showed 15.38 gigs of system ram. It never dropped below 9 gigabytes free during the video. Opening up mutt and a couple of web browser windows drops free ram to 8.7 gigs. It definitely never touches the 40 gig swap partition. I was running "auto" resolution in a webpage at the time of the freeze. That gives me 480P by default. The only non-standard thing was that I was running "playback speed" at 2X. The video card is a bog standard onboard Intel chip. "lspci -v" shows... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Dell CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 121 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 4000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 -- Roses are red Roses are blue Depending on their velocity Relative to you
