On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2018 06:13 PM, Chillfan wrote: > [snip] > > Try with the official NVIDIA drivers and see what happens. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > Thanks. I've been unable to install the driver. Would I have to get > that straight from Debian? See below for the missing dependencies. > > Looking at the task manager in XCFE and top in the shell, the RAM and > swap usage eventually start to climb more and more rapidly until >99% > of RAM is in use and >99% of swap. Then the machine locks up, mouse > pointer last. Well cool, that's a clue. Using top and/or htop, find out who is consumnig all that memory. Also find out the #2 ram consumer: Sometimes a browser can bog down and run X up to 99%. > > Another way to trigger a lock-up 100% of the time is to run qemu for > anything. Again, cool: It gives you a testpoint. Run qemu with both -m 4096 and with -m 256 to view any changes in symptom between a VM using 4G RAM and one using 256M. You using any KDE stuff? I blew off all KDE programs and libraries over 5 years ago because it had the propensity to do just what you're talking about. Do you ever take a day off? Boot to GUI, and then run a (home grown) program that writes RAM usage to a log file every minute. Run no other programs, and let it sit for over a day, which your past emails seem to say is enough time for the symptom to occur most of the time. SteveT Steve Litt April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
