M.2 M-Key CFexpress Memory Card Reader - Review & Discussion

2024-09-15 Thread Doug Girdwood
I’m especially interested in the data transfer speeds and how it handles high-resolution images and 4K/8K video footage. According to the specs, it should take full advantage of the high speeds offered by CFexpress cards, but I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. --

M.2 M-Key CFexpress Memory Card Reader - Review & Discussion

2024-09-15 Thread Doug Girdwood
Hey everyone, I recently came across the M.2 M-Key CFexpress Memory Card Reader from Micro SATA Cables and wanted to open a discussion about it. I’m especially interested in the data transfer speeds and how it handles high-resolution images and 4K/8K video footage. According to the specs, it

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/26/23 20:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened >> with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I >> resized the disk and added

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 5:20 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 23:48 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > > with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > &g

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 23:48 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to > modify /etc/

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
stall happened with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to modify /etc/fstab and disable the compressed memory swap file. In the screen text below, /dev/nvme0n1p4 is the new partition. My Google-fu really sucks tod

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > >>> with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > >>> resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to > >>> modify /etc/fstab and disable the compressed memory swap file. In th

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/26/23 23:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 2:14 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/26/23 20:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I resized the dis

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 2:14 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 6/26/23 20:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > > with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > > resiz

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/26/23 20:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Everyone, I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to modify /etc/fstab and disabl

Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to modify /etc/fstab and disable the compressed memory swap file. In the screen

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue Feb28'23 08:09:24PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > From: Jeffrey Walton > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:09:24 -0500 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: noloa...@gmail.com, Community support for Fedora users > > Subject: Re: recommended partition for

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
ne, which utilizes swap on zram. So > > basically it won't use any swap unless needed. You can adjust the amount of > > memory allowed to be used for swap. > > Right, thanks. So, I let the installer pick this up. I usually do a custom > partitioning, does that mean that I do not de

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue Feb28'23 03:23:37PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > From: Richard Shaw > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:23:37 -0600 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory > >

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Roger Heflin
ty is if we are swapping then something/someone screwed up (too many process, process leak, memory leak, machine sized wrong). On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:48 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Tue Feb28'23 01:56:08PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > From: Richard Shaw > > Date: Tue, 28 Fe

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Richard Shaw
lt; > users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:43 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to install Fedora on to a new mac

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue Feb28'23 01:56:08PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > From: Richard Shaw > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:56:08 -0600 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory > > On

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue Feb28'23 01:56:08PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > From: Richard Shaw > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:56:08 -0600 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory > > On

Re: recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Richard Shaw
talling Fedora 36 or 37, I would just leave the defaults alone, which utilizes swap on zram. So basically it won't use any swap unless needed. You can adjust the amount of memory allowed to be used for swap. Thanks, Richard ___ users mailing lis

recommended partition for swap with 0.5 TB memory

2023-02-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am trying to install Fedora on to a new machine that has 0.5 TB RAM. Hard drives are 256 GB for / and friends, and 2 TB for /home partition. In the past, it used to be suggested that swap be twice that of RAM: this later changed to the same amount, and now it is very unclear (to me) becau

Cannot mount Sony XQD memory card

2022-05-05 Thread Sbob
Hi all; I just did a new install of Fedora 34 on my laptop. I put my XQD card in a usb card reader and nothing happens (mo popup in the system tray). A dmesg command shows me this: [41307.726478] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed Plus Gen 2x1 USB device number 69 using xhci_hcd [41307.742352] usb 4-

Upgraded - Re: More memory

2022-01-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/14/22 08:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: First, I have ordered 16Gb of memory for my x140e.  One of the Lenovo forum experts has run this way in the past with no noticeable problems, though he no longer uses the 140.  The mem cards should come next week.  I will first test them out in my ole

Re: More memory

2022-01-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
First, I have ordered 16Gb of memory for my x140e.  One of the Lenovo forum experts has run this way in the past with no noticeable problems, though he no longer uses the 140.  The mem cards should come next week.  I will first test them out in my ole F32 system and make sure they don't

Re: More memory

2022-01-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/14/22 03:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 1/13/22 16:00, Tim via users wrote: My experience with Firefox's restore last session feature was only with multiple tabs, not multiple windows.  I know I can't manually kill multiple windows and than restart and get them all back, I only get back the la

Re: More memory

2022-01-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/13/22 16:00, Tim via users wrote: My experience with Firefox's restore last session feature was only with multiple tabs, not multiple windows. I know I can't manually kill multiple windows and than restart and get them all back, I only get back the last closed window. I've discovered that

Re: More memory

2022-01-13 Thread Roger Heflin
restart of firefox is faster than waiting for it to respond. We can all hope that the browsers get fixed and don't eat ram, but firefox(on both windows and linux), IE(on windows) have had this problem off and on since they were first created, so if the current memory leaks get fixed some less

Re: More memory

2022-01-13 Thread Tim via users
it detects you're close to running out of memory the behaviour is to try and kill off the process heavily consuming memory. It won't actually stop the application from using too much resources but let it keep on running. i.e. Firefox will be quit, or it will crash. The idea is that t

Re: More memory

2022-01-13 Thread Tim via users
s to use and they have > stuff running on them. Anything other than flat static HTML is a major candidate for chewing through your memory, CPU load, and network bandwidth. Pages that load adverts may continually load new ones, perhaps multimedia ones. Some pages may time-out on you. Pages th

Re: More memory

2022-01-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/13/22 00:35, Tim via users wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It periodically (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and can restore them again on startup, but optionally not actually load each page until you decide to visit it. A

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan >> You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It >> periodically (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and >> can restore them again on startup, but optionally not actually load >> each page until you decide to visit it. Andras Simon: > I believe that th

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Andras Simon
2022-01-12 13:21 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 12:46 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> 2022-01-12 12:09 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan >> : >> >> > You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It >> > periodically >> > (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windo

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 08:40 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 1/12/22 06:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > what is

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/12/22 06:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 +1030, Tim via users wrote: On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: what is 'earlyoom'? OOM is an out-of-memory condition, earlyoom is something that's supposed to jump in and m

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 12:46 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > 2022-01-12 12:09 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan > : > > > You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It > > periodically > > (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and can restore > > them > > again on startup, but opt

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Andras Simon
2022-01-12 12:09 UTC+01:00, Patrick O'Callaghan : > You might consider the Tab Session Manager extension. It periodically > (or on demand) saves your current tabs and windows and can restore them > again on startup, but optionally not actually load each page until you > decide to visit it. I beli

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 20:25 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > what is 'earlyoom'? > > OOM is an out-of-memory condition, earlyoom is something that's > supposed to jump in and manage the memory use (someho

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 14:58 -0700, linux guy wrote: > I have 75 Windows with 550 tabs. Across 5 desktops and 4 > activities. My machine has 64GB of RAM. It is always responsive. Okay, we're all coming around to your place to use your computer, then. ;-) -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.4

Re: More memory

2022-01-12 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > what is 'earlyoom'? OOM is an out-of-memory condition, earlyoom is something that's supposed to jump in and manage the memory use (somehow) before you run out of free memory. I'm not surprised at Firefox b

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Ed Greshko
G   6G  100 So, memory is being used as swap making it much faster.  And, as you can see, no disk swap is being used. -- Did 황준호 die? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 17:00, linux guy wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:56 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: In a couple days, I will see the swap usage grow.  Until I Quit firefox, then restart with all the old windows opening. But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to. TabSessio

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
ntil I Quit firefox, > > then restart with all the old windows opening. > > > > But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to. > > > > On 1/11/22 16:33, John Mellor wrote: > > > What on earth are you doing in Firefox and Thunderbird to use that > > &g

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
ox unless forced to. > > On 1/11/22 16:33, John Mellor wrote: > > What on earth are you doing in Firefox and Thunderbird to use that > > swap? I have multiple 8GB machines running the same Fedora, Firefox > > and Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all. Two t

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:56 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In a couple days, I will see the swap usage grow. Until I Quit firefox, > then restart with all the old windows opening. > > But I really never exit Firefox unless forced to. > TabSessionManager is your friend. Look for it in AddOns. W

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
se hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see what the real problem app is. -- John Mellor On 2022-01-11 12:30 p.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote: The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be not enough. $ free totalusedfree

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
I have 75 Windows with 550 tabs. Across 5 desktops and 4 activities. My machine has 64GB of RAM. It is always responsive. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedo

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
ning the same Fedora, Firefox and > > Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all. Two the these > > machines are also Lenovo. This makes no sense, so there must be > > something else hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see > > what the real prob

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
et into swap at all.  Two the these machines are also Lenovo.  This makes no sense, so there must be something else hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see what the real problem app is. -- John Mellor On 2022-01-11 12:30 p.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote: The specs for my Leno

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
Firefox uses a lot of RAM if you have a lot of windows/tabs open. Another way to see how much memory FF is using is to do an about:performance in the URL field. A bare minimum hardware spec for me these days is 16GB of RAM. I purchased a laptop this summer and bumped that to 32 GB. My desktop

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Roger Heflin
nning the same Fedora, Firefox and > Thunderbird, and virtually never get into swap at all. Two the these > machines are also Lenovo. This makes no sense, so there must be > something else hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see > what the real problem app is. > >

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread John Mellor
hogging all that memory. Do a top and sort by RSS and see what the real problem app is. -- John Mellor On 2022-01-11 12:30 p.m., Robert Moskowitz wrote: The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be not enough. $ free    total    used    free

Re: More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Looks like more memory is "well" supported: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X140e-Review-and-Upgrade-Information-WLAN-WWAN-Memory-HDD/m-p/1931897 So 16GB for ~$90.  Going to have to figure out the best good deal on 2x*GB memory. And look at 32GB options. But

More memory

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
    21734220 but really the bottom line is I need more memory for the tasks at hand.  Firefox has all these weird processes running eating up lots of memory and swapping like crazy.  Probably bad for my SSD drive. So how to get to 16GB memory? What follows the x140e in the 12" format?  I

Re: Growing shared memory leak?

2021-10-26 Thread Roger Heflin
proc/meminfo documentation: Shmem Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs ShmemHugePages Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs allocated with huge pages I have been reading the meminfo documentation trying to try to account for all of the memory usage

Re: Growing shared memory leak?

2021-10-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
uld be happening here? Does writing a file to > > tmpfs and then deleting it cause the tmpfs to retain that allocated > > memory until reboot? > > > > My system is running Fedora 34. I have ensured nothing is mounted over > > top of /tmp and hiding files. > &g

Re: Growing shared memory leak?

2021-10-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
p > > However, `du` does not show 3.5GB of files inside: > > jmetzmeier@localhost:/tmp $ sudo du -sh ./ > 32K ./ > > Does anyone know what could be happening here? Does writing a file to > tmpfs and then deleting it cause the tmpfs to retain that allocated > memor

Re: Growing shared memory leak?

2021-10-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/26/21 12:23 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Does anyone know what could be happening here? Does writing a file to tmpfs and then deleting it cause the tmpfs to retain that allocated memory until reboot? Wikipedia tells us that shared memory is used to communicate between programs and

Growing shared memory leak?

2021-10-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I am trying to determine if a problem I am experiencing is a bug or if there is something I am missing. Last week I found that 15GB of my 32GB RAM was used by shared memory, causing my system to fill swap. After about 1hr of trying to discover the reason for this, the only thing I could find was

Re: Restart systemd service based on memory usage

2021-07-25 Thread Barry
> On 22 Jul 2021, at 20:01, Richard Shaw wrote: > >  > I have a Kiosk I'm trying out using Chromium, unfortunately it seems to have > a memory leak and crashes in less than 24 hours of usage. It likely that the problem is not a bug in chromium but rather the javascript

Re: Restart systemd service based on memory usage

2021-07-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 23/07/2021 04:22, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 2:41 PM Ed Greshko mailto:ed.gres...@greshko.com>> wrote: On 23/07/2021 03:00, Richard Shaw wrote: > I have a Kiosk I'm trying out using Chromium, unfortunately it seems to have a memory leak and crashes i

Re: Restart systemd service based on memory usage

2021-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 2:41 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 23/07/2021 03:00, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I have a Kiosk I'm trying out using Chromium, unfortunately it seems to > have a memory leak and crashes in less than 24 hours of usage. > > > > I see systemD has an o

Re: Restart systemd service based on memory usage

2021-07-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 23/07/2021 03:00, Richard Shaw wrote: I have a Kiosk I'm trying out using Chromium, unfortunately it seems to have a memory leak and crashes in less than 24 hours of usage. I see systemD has an option for "MemoryMax" but was wondering if anyone has actually used it? Is

Restart systemd service based on memory usage

2021-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
I have a Kiosk I'm trying out using Chromium, unfortunately it seems to have a memory leak and crashes in less than 24 hours of usage. I see systemD has an option for "MemoryMax" but was wondering if anyone has actually used it? Is it as simple as MemoryMax=512M OnFailure=Restar

Re: Running Fedora in Memory

2021-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/21 1:24 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: What do you mean by "in memory"?  And how much memory? Currently the LiveOS can run off a USB/DVD what I am asking is if the OS can be loaded into RAM so that the removable media is no longer needed. I expect you could and I think I've

Re: Running Fedora in Memory

2021-05-03 Thread Earl Ramirez
> > What do you mean by "in memory"?  And how much memory? Currently the LiveOS can run off a USB/DVD what I am asking is if the OS can be loaded into RAM so that the removable media is no longer needed. At a minimum of 2GB. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

Re: Running Fedora in Memory

2021-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/21 12:20 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: Has anyone used Fedora in memory? I saw that there are couple OSes that are capable of doing this and wonder if this is possible to achieve this with Fedora. What do you mean by "in memory"? And how m

Running Fedora in Memory

2021-05-03 Thread Earl Ramirez
Dear All, Has anyone used Fedora in memory? I saw that there are couple OSes that are capable of doing this and wonder if this is possible to achieve this with Fedora. Thanks -- Kind Regards, Earl A. Ramirez 2021-05-03T21:14:59 (CEST +0200) signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Ryzen CPU + ECC memory

2020-01-31 Thread Alessio
On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 10:19 +0100, Germano Massullo wrote: > Il 31/01/20 03:13, Roger Heflin ha scritto: > > Google reports this answer: > > *** CUT *** > > I know, but I need to contact someone that has a running system, > because > I want to see the output of some specific commands before I proc

Re: Ryzen CPU + ECC memory

2020-01-31 Thread Germano Massullo
Il 31/01/20 03:13, Roger Heflin ha scritto: > Google reports this answer: > *** CUT *** I know, but I need to contact someone that has a running system, because I want to see the output of some specific commands before I proceed to buy the hardware ___ u

Re: Ryzen CPU + ECC memory

2020-01-30 Thread Roger Heflin
Google reports this answer: AMD confirms that Ryzen support ECC memory In simple terms, this means that AMD's Ryzen CPUs have full support for ECC memory, but AMD does not want to officially provide any QA or official support for ECC on their consumer platforms.Mar 2, 2017 A couple of answe

Ryzen CPU + ECC memory

2020-01-30 Thread Germano Massullo
Can anybody with a Ryzen CPU + ECC memory show me the output of following command? # dmesg | grep ECC I am buying a Gigabyte X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI in order to be able to use ECC capabilities, by the way Gigabyte documentation states: " ECC is only supported with AMD Ryzen and Athlon o

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/6/19 3:29 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not paying attention to my power situation. I would have thou

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 19:59 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs > > out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not > > paying attention to my power sit

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs > out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not > paying attention to my power situation. I would have thought the ideal way for it to operate is

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 8/5/19 1:49 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/5/19 3:07 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was just looking at that basically all was running in real memory (with lots of buffer space) with no swap used, and forgot about suspend/hibernate. Only hibernate.  Suspend doesn't use the swap

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/5/19 3:07 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was just looking at that basically all was running in real memory (with lots of buffer space) with no swap used, and forgot about suspend/hibernate. Only hibernate. Suspend doesn't use the

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
feature that works by dumping RAM to swap, having more ensures that it will fit. I doubt you need double, though. Thanks for reminding me!  I need to bump up my swap again and make it permanent (change fstab).  50% more than real memory should do it... I was just looking at that basically all was

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:57 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You > should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap. There is an advantage to having more swap than RAM: If you use a hibernate feature that works by dumping RAM to swap, havin

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 08/04/2019 07:32 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap. I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with poor performance. I think I'd consider 4 gig of

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap. > > I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with > poor performance. I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a bare minimum, these days

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread sixpack13
your is an ThinkPad X140e ? according to this https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/Unofficial-Max-RAM-Capacity-for-x120e/m-p/3717347/highlight/true#M77742 and https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/tp02_en/thread-id/37966/page/3 and https://imgur.com/a/

Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Just felt I should post a wrap up on my swap increase journey. All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap. I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with poor performance. What was going on?  With Fedora 28 I was running fairly well with 4GB, or was I

Re: Out of memory system lockup

2019-07-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 7/22/19 11:50 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > When I get back from IETF, I will see about buying more memory for this > Lenovo x140e, but still, I should not be eating up this much memory.  I > am doing the same thing I did on my x120e and Fedora28 with never any of > these memor

Re: Out of memory system lockup

2019-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
When I get back from IETF, I will see about buying more memory for this Lenovo x140e, but still, I should not be eating up this much memory.  I am doing the same thing I did on my x120e and Fedora28 with never any of these memory challenges. On 7/22/19 2:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: For

Out of memory system lockup

2019-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
For the 2nd time my system locked up. This time I managed to get into one of the character sessions, logged in as root and top showed the kswapd was eating up lots of cpu.  Then free showed all real and swap memory used.  That is 4Gb + 4GB. Obviously with all my problems, I am having

Re: Qemu also out of memory overnight

2019-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Crashed again last night during rsync.  Looks like it is time for a bug report... Jun 28 01:13:57 lx140e kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2545 (firefox) total-vm:3122000kB, anon-rss:412084kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:2672kB Jun 28 15:20:58 lx140e kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 1136

Re: Qemu also out of memory overnight

2019-07-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
kernel: oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2d3\x2dfedora21.scope,task=qemu-system-x86,pid=13357,uid=107 Jun 30 01:53:35 lx140e kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 13357 (qemu-system-x86) total-vm:3536848kB

Re: Qemu also out of memory overnight

2019-07-01 Thread wwp
kernel: > oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2d3\x2dfedora21.scope,task=qemu-system-x86,pid=13357,uid=107 > Jun 30 01:53:35 lx140e kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 13357 > (qemu-system-x86) total-vm:3536

Qemu also out of memory overnight

2019-06-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
=/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2d3\x2dfedora21.scope,task=qemu-system-x86,pid=13357,uid=107 Jun 30 01:53:35 lx140e kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 13357 (qemu-system-x86) total-vm:3536848kB, anon-rss:860128kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB Jun 30 01:53:35 lx140e kernel: oom_reaper: reaped process

Re: F30, user sessions fail with: systemd[PID]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory

2019-05-28 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Wed, 22 May 2019 15:41:58 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > I add time, from a second textual console as root, to see the "systemd > --user" process reach more than 40 GB of memory before dying. I made a bugzilla for this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com

F30, user sessions fail with: systemd[PID]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory

2019-05-22 Thread Francis . Montagnac
]: Starting User Manager for UID 1005... May 20 12:37:48 ... systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty2. May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user fm by (uid=0) May 20 12:38:16 ... systemd[1864]: PAM failed: Cannot allocate memory May 20 12:38:16

Re: Evolution Memory Consumption

2019-03-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 08:01 +1100, Earl Ramirez wrote: > Thanks a lot for the pointers, it turns out that the issue is related to > webkit > GIGCAGE, if I disable GIGCAGE 'GIGACAGE_ENABLED=0 evolution' I see better > utilisation of memory also after a synchronisation memory

Re: Evolution Memory Consumption

2019-03-09 Thread Earl Ramirez
g/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > Be sure to state your specific version of Evo (Help->About). Thanks a lot for the pointers, it turns out that the issue is related to webkit GIGCAGE, if I disable GIGCAGE 'GIGACAGE_ENABLED=0 evolution' I see better utilisation of me

Re: Evolution Memory Consumption

2019-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 19:46 +1100, Earl Ramirez wrote: > Dear Fedora Community, > > I have been using Evolution client for many years now and it seems that after > each upgrade Evolution is getting more greedy for memory, I was humble when it > use to consume 2GB of RAM but now

Evolution Memory Consumption

2019-03-08 Thread Earl Ramirez
Dear Fedora Community, I have been using Evolution client for many years now and it seems that after each upgrade Evolution is getting more greedy for memory, I was humble when it use to consume 2GB of RAM but now I have seen it consuming up 8GB of RAM which I believe is not normal. I restarted

Re: auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Frédéric wrote: > > I've never had to use it, but what about setting > > the process max memory with "ulimit -m"? > > Thanks, it seems to work. I can put it in .bashrc. > > F That will affect every process you run.

Re: auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/25/2018 09:47 AM, Frédéric wrote: Thanks, it seems to work. I can put it in .bashrc. Note: System policies belong in /etc/security/limits.conf. Otherwise, they're optional.  (Users can remove them). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-25 Thread Frédéric
> I've never had to use it, but what about setting > the process max memory with "ulimit -m"? Thanks, it seems to work. I can put it in .bashrc. F ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:19:41AM +0200, Frédéric wrote: > Hi, > > It happens sometimes that someone launches a process that uses too > much memory. Then the computer starts swapping leaving the computer > completely out of use. When the swap is full (I guess), the process is

auto-kill process using too much memory

2018-08-23 Thread Frédéric
Hi, It happens sometimes that someone launches a process that uses too much memory. Then the computer starts swapping leaving the computer completely out of use. When the swap is full (I guess), the process is automatically killed and we can work again. But this can last 10-15 minutes. Would it

Re: Gnome memory leak #64

2018-08-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 08:33:58 +0800 Robbi Nespu wrote: > As we know, memory leak bugs #64 and relevent fixes are available only > on gjs 1.53.x + gnome 3.29. > > On my current Fedora 28 workstation, I have gnome-shell 3.28.3 and gjs > 1.52.3 from updates repository and I can&#x

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