What do I do about a machine that is running out of memory and crashing?Why is swap being used even though I...
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What do I do about a machine that is running out of memory and crashing?
Why is swap being used even though I have plenty of free RAM?Lot's of swap is in use but ram has plenty of free spaceSwap partition not workingShould my swap size be zero or am I misunderstanding the output?Ubuntu freeze when low memoryNot sure my swap is being usedvm.swappiness does not apply to tmpfs, Ubuntu Server 16.04.5Wine 3.0 asking for more virtual free swapUbuntu 18.04 freezing when using multiple tabs on firefoxWhenever i do “heavy” suff, PC runs very slow & laggy. Is there a way to solve this by Partitioning?
My spouse is running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad X1 that has been crashing a lot. Usually he's got a bunch of tabs open but nothing that should crash a relatively powerful laptop.
The machine freezes and the only solution is a power cycle because it is otherwise unresponsive.
I am used to being able to get to another TTY to troubleshoot with ctrl-alt-F3 but that doesn't seem to work on his machine.
One oddity, when I run top it reports zero swap:
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used
That can't be right, but free confirms it:
amanda@Flatbush:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 5.4G 164M 1.5G 2.1G 516M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
By contrast, my machine is a few years older than his and works fine. There, free shows:
amanda@mona:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 1.2G 5.1G 237M 1.3G 5.9G
Swap: 7.8G 0B 7.8G
The good machine has way more memory and way more available swap (though to be fair I just fired it up to compare and don't have anything running on it).
I suspect that the issue is connected to the differences in memory but I don't know how to go about fixing it. s
freeze swap
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My spouse is running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad X1 that has been crashing a lot. Usually he's got a bunch of tabs open but nothing that should crash a relatively powerful laptop.
The machine freezes and the only solution is a power cycle because it is otherwise unresponsive.
I am used to being able to get to another TTY to troubleshoot with ctrl-alt-F3 but that doesn't seem to work on his machine.
One oddity, when I run top it reports zero swap:
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used
That can't be right, but free confirms it:
amanda@Flatbush:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 5.4G 164M 1.5G 2.1G 516M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
By contrast, my machine is a few years older than his and works fine. There, free shows:
amanda@mona:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 1.2G 5.1G 237M 1.3G 5.9G
Swap: 7.8G 0B 7.8G
The good machine has way more memory and way more available swap (though to be fair I just fired it up to compare and don't have anything running on it).
I suspect that the issue is connected to the differences in memory but I don't know how to go about fixing it. s
freeze swap
asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
4,313104284
"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and thefreeoutput seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.
– user535733
7 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago
add a comment |
My spouse is running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad X1 that has been crashing a lot. Usually he's got a bunch of tabs open but nothing that should crash a relatively powerful laptop.
The machine freezes and the only solution is a power cycle because it is otherwise unresponsive.
I am used to being able to get to another TTY to troubleshoot with ctrl-alt-F3 but that doesn't seem to work on his machine.
One oddity, when I run top it reports zero swap:
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used
That can't be right, but free confirms it:
amanda@Flatbush:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 5.4G 164M 1.5G 2.1G 516M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
By contrast, my machine is a few years older than his and works fine. There, free shows:
amanda@mona:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 1.2G 5.1G 237M 1.3G 5.9G
Swap: 7.8G 0B 7.8G
The good machine has way more memory and way more available swap (though to be fair I just fired it up to compare and don't have anything running on it).
I suspect that the issue is connected to the differences in memory but I don't know how to go about fixing it. s
freeze swap
asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
4,313104284
My spouse is running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad X1 that has been crashing a lot. Usually he's got a bunch of tabs open but nothing that should crash a relatively powerful laptop.
The machine freezes and the only solution is a power cycle because it is otherwise unresponsive.
I am used to being able to get to another TTY to troubleshoot with ctrl-alt-F3 but that doesn't seem to work on his machine.
One oddity, when I run top it reports zero swap:
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used
That can't be right, but free confirms it:
amanda@Flatbush:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 5.4G 164M 1.5G 2.1G 516M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
By contrast, my machine is a few years older than his and works fine. There, free shows:
amanda@mona:~$ sudo free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7G 1.2G 5.1G 237M 1.3G 5.9G
Swap: 7.8G 0B 7.8G
The good machine has way more memory and way more available swap (though to be fair I just fired it up to compare and don't have anything running on it).
I suspect that the issue is connected to the differences in memory but I don't know how to go about fixing it. s
freeze swap
freeze swap
asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
4,313104284
asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
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Amanda
asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
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asked 37 mins ago
AmandaAmanda
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asked 37 mins ago
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"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and thefreeoutput seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.
– user535733
7 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago
add a comment |
"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and thefreeoutput seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.
– user535733
7 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago
"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and the
free output seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.– user535733
7 mins ago
"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and the
free output seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.– user535733
7 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago
add a comment |
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"Bunch of tabs open" smells like possibly running low on RAM, and the
freeoutput seems to also lean that direction. A Facebook tab, for example, can consume a staggering amount of resources.– user535733
7 mins ago
Fair. Rewording the question because "why" isn't really what I want to know, what I want to know is how to fix it.
– Amanda
3 mins ago