On 170219-13:53+0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I Ebuilds are just text files, they don't run in the background...
> start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of > open tabs. ( Chromium is the most privacy-invading browser ever. It's a spyware, I could never use it, but forget about that, it's not what this topic is about... ) > In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrome. > What can I do in that case. (Remote login doesn't work either) Try Ctrl+Alt+Fx where x is one of F1 ... F6 and then issue: # killa chromium > > Can I have any additional program (like Chromium) die if there is not > enough memory. > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut > This could be a hardware, not a software issue. Also, not sure, but looks like, not a memory issue, but a CPU issue. It's likely the CPU triggers the BIOS to shut down because CPU gets too hot, but because it is not properly implemented, what happens is even worse than doing nothing, and that is: the system freezes, but the CPU keeps running... Bad! How warm does you machine, try to touch it in the back, or under, if it's a laptop, where ther CPU is? It reminds me of what I had. My systems, that had only the original, run-of-the-mill coolers on the CPUs (I bought a few of same model MBO, so i can clone my systems)... The usual 80mm coolers. As soon as I replaced them with 120mm coolers, no issues any more. Regards! -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia https://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
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