On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 07:41:10 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 + Pariksheet Nanda
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
>
> Try free. E.g.:
>
> root@jhegaala:~# free
> totalusedfree shared buff/
>> 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
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
On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 07:41:10 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +
> Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
>
> Try free. E.g.:
>
> root@jhegaala:~# free
> totalusedfree shared buff/ca
On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 07:41 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +
> Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
>
> Try free. E.g.:
>
> root@jhegaala:~# free
> totalusedfree shared buff/cache
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +
Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
> I don't know how to empirically test that swap works
Try free. E.g.:
root@jhegaala:~# free
totalusedfree shared buff/cache available
Mem: 78605095 780 597
> I neglected to mention that I run XFCE with its System Load Monitor panel
> plugin having a RAM indicator bar that climbs and maxes out right before the
> hang. RAM is something I often need to monitor because I run scientific
> computing programs which can also exhaust my RAM if I'm not careful
Pariksheet Nanda writes:
> 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 di
> 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
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
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
Hi,
> 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?
> 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
12 matches
Mail list logo
