Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Tox!c illude, The $~ is telling you that you're in your home directory and is asking you to enter commands. Hmm... are you running Debian on a small microcomputer? Did you install Debian yourself or was it pre-installed? What are you looking to do and learn? That would help us point you i

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-25 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
>> The hanging behavior is like a step function: the computer goes from being >> fully responsive to completely unresponsive; > > That's very much unlike a normal "out of RAM" situation, OTOH. > Normally what happens is that the OS starts to shuffle things around > (throwing out cached data, moving

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-25 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Linux-Fan, >>> I just checked my other server which has ZFS on root without encryption, >>> and see that I did not enable swap at all on that machine. So I'll disable >>> swap, thrash the RAM with `stress`, and then hopefully the OOM-killer works >>> like it does on that machine. >> >> Yay! Inde

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-24 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
> I just checked my other server which has ZFS on root without encryption, and > see that I did not enable swap at all on that machine. So I'll disable swap, > thrash the RAM with`stress`, and then hopefully the OOM-killer works like it > does on that machine. Yay! Indeed disabling swap allowe

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-24 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Stefan, >> My crystal ball says that you're not running out of RAM, but you're >> hitting a nasty bug instead. I hope I'm wrong. > > Perhaps there's a ZFS bug or misconfiguration that happens before the > OOM-killer has the chance to be involked. The encryption support is a > relatively new f

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-24 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Stefan, >> Every few days, my desktop runs out of RAM, and this usually happens while >> web browsing. > > What exactly makes you think the problem is that it ran out of RAM? --snip-- > If your problem is due to a lack of free RAM, I'd expect the OOM to do > its job at some point and I'd also e

OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-24 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hello, First post to this list, so go easy on me! Every few days, my desktop runs out of RAM, and this usually happens while web browsing. I wait for as much as an hour and a half, but just see the screen as frozen the way it was at the time of the hang. 8 GB RAM is installed in it, and it's run