System freez

FalloutST · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2017 Posts: 8

The system freezes: the disk usage indicator lights up.
Usually when working with chrome with many tabs.
SSD raiserfs no swap
photo of iotop -o -a output for about 30 minutes
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4yH569Fs47ya0hmRXhmWWhCM19kLWpSMkZvZ2t2eEJuYko4

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 1:06 am Post subject:

What do you mean freeze? You can still switch to other consoles or you can still get that iotop?

If the hd activity light is on and the machine is completely unresponsive, likely it's a hardware/motherboard problem, possibly GPU...
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FalloutST · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2017 Posts: 8

completely unresponsive describe the situation, occasionally I can switch to console, where I run iotop especially for that reason.
I hv't seen that problem with chrome shut down.

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:49 am Post subject:

If you can switch out of X11 then it's not completely unresponsive.

Some of your iotop data seems to indicate a lot more disk transfer than what should be normal, are you out of ram and it's doing paging? When it's paging text pages in and out, performance will drop like a rock, more so than having swap. You should try adding some swap, maybe 512MB or so, to see if it helps any.

What about regular 'top' data?
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FalloutST · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2017 Posts: 8

I'll try to catch it with top. may be it is lack of ram, but even using swap I've met same problems.

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:31 pm Post subject:

If you run out of swap, the kernel will do the same as if you didn't have any swap, so it's also a bit inconclusive. However you have an SSD - I've not experienced how bad the machine does text page paging when out of RAM with a SSD, but with a HDD it's really bad.

Either way, definitely want to see if you ran out of RAM and the kernel is doing a death march trying to deal with it before claiming hardware issues.
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FalloutST · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2017 Posts: 8

So, top:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vIXjVquXPsUll0OUpTVW1xVFVRU3ZLSnNFY1ppNWl6SlhV/view?usp=sharing

kiling 18688 stopped problem it is lack of ram but how to fix it

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 5:10 pm Post subject:

Three possibilities.

1. Add more RAM.
2. Quit Chrome every once in a while
3. Add swap. Probably ~2GB should be good

Nevermind, was thinking that you still had 1GB in buffer/cache but apparently it's locked and cannot be paged (since you have no swap). Are you using tmpfs, how much stuff is on your /tmp if you use tmpfs for that?

Don't worry about swapping to SSD. I've been putting swap on my SSDs since I first got them...
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FalloutST · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2017 Posts: 8

For chrome cache I use ramdisk 1Gb
more ram is not possible on that machine physically 4gb is maximum
I'll look for some separate device for swap, since i had 512mb swap with no tempfs had same problems... Where I can read about mechanism making that s... staff.
I've started to learn unix not so far so may be there is some way to manage it.

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:23 am Post subject:

Ok, that's actually another quick solution, don't use ramdisk/tmpfs for chrome cache, or reduce it significantly. Or you could just cache to your SSD. Again it should be no problem with write endurance.

If you already set up your disk, you can create swap files. There's information at https://www.linux.com/news/all-about-linux-swap-space .
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