Disabling the (execute disable bit) xd bit in bios and disabling the virtual machine options in bios appears to greatly have improved these issues (at least for now) there arent many bios options on this motherboard (including none at all for the ram) and at present I am not sure which of these has improved the situation, but, it seems much improved.
This particular pc seems to use excessive memory using most kernals, compared to my other 2 computers running mint 18.3, this seems to have helped quite a bit (at least for now). I have also tried different memory sticks, just in case, with no improvement. Previously this machine was sometimes using the full 4 gb of ram within an hour and not correctly releasing the memory when quitting programs, it then slowed to virtually a stop. At the moment I have a few things open including my browser and still have 2.7 gb of memory free still, after, just under 4 1/2 hours, so, on the face of it, it seems to have improved, I have also reverted to kernal 4.13.0-32. Not sure if any of this info is of any use, but, this seems to have helped my situation and has made this pc usable now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1900395 Title: Memory Leak Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Kernal 4.15.0-107 has a memory leak on this pc I am using here the motherboard is an rm-ecoquiet-965 using 4 gb of ddr 2 667 ram and an intel T 8300 cpu together with a gt 220 512 mb. I have noticed this issue with several kernals and I know it is a strange pc set up, due to using laptop ddr2 and a laptop cpu, together with the graphics card which is a slimmed down gt 220 having 8 rops and 24 shaders, instead of the more usual 48 shaders, it was built to keep electricity costs down as I spend a lot of time on my pc, it is basically a back up pc built during lock down, for those reasons, It was also, very cheap and uses laptop hard disks as well. I have been unable to pinpoint the exact source of the memory leak, which, is never the less present as the two kernals, below, do not display the same problems. 4.15.0-45 works fine on it, without issues, as does 4.13.0-32. For anyone else, who may encounter this issue. --- ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.25 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: my 1500 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: my 1500 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon DistroRelease: Linux 18.3 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2fdb0057-68a1-4ad7-9b01-c3dfe6522832 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-22 (57 days ago) InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" - Release amd64 20171124 MachineType: RM plc RM ECOQUIET 965 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia Package: linux (not installed) ProcFB: ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-107-generic root=UUID=42a38bf9-a162-4301-b15c-6e12c8de42ec ro quiet splash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-107.108~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.15.0-107-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.15.0-107-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157.23 RfKill: StagingDrivers: r8188eu Tags: sylvia staging Uname: Linux 4.15.0-107-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 04/17/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 0111 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: IMISR-VM dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: WO52872602 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: RM plc dmi.chassis.version: RM ONE AC97 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0111:bd04/17/2008:svnRMplc:pnRMECOQUIET965:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnIMISR-VM:rvrRev1.xx:cvnRMplc:ct3:cvrRMONEAC97: dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.name: RM ECOQUIET 965 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: RM plc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1900395/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
