Seva wrote:crashing and freezing is a problem
Crashing, I found to be related to running program with unresolved dependency. As a precautionary measure, before trying program for first time I would
and afterwards resume
If neglected to do this, and if still there was keyboard response, would do same command from console. This seemed to do the trick in KDE. Don't know equivalent in other DE.
Reduce possibility of there being an unresolved dependency by running
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ldd /Path/to/File/<binary> | grep "not found"
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usm -d /var/log/packages/<package of interest>
Freezing, I encountered early on. Having only 1GB of RAM, every now and then the hard disk would go for a whirl, a couple of minutes during which nothing could be done. Finally traced to
slocate, which I have shut down ever since via
rootcopy entry. Only occassionally use
find, so overhead of a prolonged
find would present no problem, however in practice the time taken for all the deep
finds can be counted in seconds.
Now, freezing only occurs in my setup when browser runs into a site with a buggy script. It's not only when using the browser directly, but also could be many minutes after using browser, and deep in the middle of some other app when freezing occurs. Reckon this is due to the nature of the system, that a script will very quickly rip through ram, and then thrash the hard disk swap partitions. Am able to retrieve situation via
magic SysRq:
Alt+SysRq+f will get rid of process gobbling up memory. Please refer to Links here:
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