On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:51:47PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 04/26/2018 06:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300 > > Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] > >> 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%. > [snip] > > I've been watching for a while now and through several reboots. I can't > see anything in user space that consumes RAM but over time the memory > usage creeps upward. Some things can make it rise rapidly, such as Qemu > or VLC or Chromium or many others from time to time. Only Qemu is quite > consistent, but it itself does not show unreasonable memory usage even > while the system is running out of memory. I haven't seen memory usage > while enabling or disabling a second display, but that often causes a > freeze. So I suspect something not in user space, and the display makes > me think its the graphics card driver. However, above and beyond being > an all-around permanoob on most topics, I am especially ignorant about > hardware. > > I suspect that if I could figure out 1) the appropriate drivers, and 2) > how to get them from Debian, that would be the solution. >
Dear Lars, the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly the same drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos. And I mean it. Whatever it is, it's indeed the very same package, really, *the* *very* *same* *package*. Your problem looks like a faulty xorg or kernel driver, and we haven't forked any xorg or kernel package. I am not following the whole nvidia driver business, but I understand it is somehow messy. You probably are not the first De??an user experiencing these problems, so having a look at bugs.debian.org and/or on dev1galaxy.org might be a good idea at this point. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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