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    crash in Ubuntu GNU/Linux (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
    the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

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    a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
    just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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    [–] grue 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Up until yesterday I would've said "Firefox" (because I hoard tabs), but it turns the real answer was "Firefox running as a Snap."

    (A failed update screwed up my Snap installation, which finally gave me the kick I needed to quit procrastinating and excise it from my system once and for all. I'm running Firefox installed via apt package from Mozilla's PPA, and now -- with the same number of tabs open -- my system is hovering around 8 GB memory usage, when before it was constantly bouncing off the 32 GB redline.)

    [–] PainInTheAES 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Firefox somewhat regularly crashes or freezes up my laptop (16Gb) due to memory usage and I'm running the default Arch package. I ended up installing a memory watchdog that kills processes when they start using too much. Although I do hoard tabs.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I mean there is a kernel OOM killer and a systemd service that acts well before that. Do you not use systemd?

    [–] PainInTheAES 1 points 9 months ago

    I do use systemd. I pretty much run stock EndeavorOS