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Zero unrecoverable freeze events per month
That’s weird… I never freeze. Do you run out of memory?
No, in fact I struggle to use more than 6 out of 16gb. If I knew how to use dmesg (or any logging functionality) I would pursue it further.
Hmm! Very strange! I probably don’t have the same setup as you at all, but I’ve only had the system entirely freeze on me when I’ve run out of memory (compiling big projects that takes like 60 gigs of memory, ugh). Enabling zram completely solved this problem for me (the memory compresses super well in my use case). 16gb is a decent chunk of memory and I wouldn’t expect you to run out in normal circumstances, though. If you’re doing some heavier work on your computer it could be tight.
What kind of system are you running? I probably can’t help, but maybe somebody else would have an idea. Any clue when it freezes? Like a certain application or something?
KDE Neon, AM4 platform. GPU is 8 years old. The freeze event commonly happens when Firefox with 10 to 15 tabs open is the active application, and mouse movement is present.
Perhaps it's a swap issue?
Swap is painfully slow, but unless you have a really high swappiness setting you shouldn’t just be swapping all the time. If that is the case, though, try zram.
Same but I guess that's just what happens when you basically beta test i915 (i use fedora)
This sucks, it happens to be when my system runs out of swap and memory usage spikes