System Specs before starting:
Fedora 43
KDE Plasma
Wayland
i7-6700K
GeForce GTX 1660 super
32 GB memory (unsure if ddr3 or ddr4)
Hi! Recently I convinced my partner to make the switch to linux, specifically, Fedora. However, sometimes her computer will just completely freeze, and requires a hard reboot, I haven’t gotten the chance to test if reisub works while it’s frozen. Also, very, very rarely, it will come back to life, or show some signs of life; today, it froze, but I could still hear her over our call, and then it slowly advanced the display over the next couple minutes- as in the mouse was moving very slowly according to how she was moving her mouse when it froze- before stopping again and requiring a reboot.
I’m pretty sure this has been happening since day 1, fresh install, so I don’t think it’s anything we did/installed that broke things.
My gut tells me that it’s an issue with her memory, but it seems like the majority of the time, it happens while using graphically intensive apps/games, but that’s not always consistent. This leads me to think it’s actually an nvidia issue, we’ve tried both the neuveau and proprietary drivers, but it happens on both.
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
I just want to second (third?) the possibility that it’s an OOM. My system freezes in the same way when I run out of memory.
Generally it’s because I have too many tabs open in Firefox, so I tweaked the Firefox settings to make it unload tabs when below a certain amount of free memory:
browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory true browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb 8192 browser.low_commit_space_threshold_percent 25 browser.tabs.fadeOutUnloadedTabs true browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload 86400000The above settings in
about:configwill start to unload tabs when you get below 8Gb or 25% of free memory. The “inactive duration” is set to 1 day so that Firefox doesn’t just start unloading tabs unnecessarily.Since I changed these settings, I always have at least 8Gb memory free for other programs. You could reduce those values if you want to use more of your memory for Firefox.