Hi,
This week I've been observing this issue at least once a day: at a certain point the system load starts increasing (I can see it from my CPU/disk load applet) and everything freezes, screen, mouse, keyboard. I cannot go to terminal in text mode, I cannot login with SSH (login is accepted but never shows shell). At that point the disk is highly active.
The only solution is to power down brute force.
Has anyone noticed a similar behaviour? I usually run the usual applications like Thunderbird, Firefox, Chromium, file manager, terminals.
It may have started happening since I started using Chromium simultaneously with Firefox.
Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
I use Chromium simultaneously with Firefox all the time - continuously - 24/7 for weeks with 16 GB RAM. 8+ FF tabs/windows and 4 Chromium tabs. No problems.
I dont' think this is your problem, but lets eliminate it. Next time you think it is happening, restart Cinnamon (Ctrl-Alt-Esc).
I dont' think this is your problem, but lets eliminate it. Next time you think it is happening, restart Cinnamon (Ctrl-Alt-Esc).
Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
Do you have flatpaks?--have you added any lately? Try temporarily turning off the flatpak updater in yourjmss wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:26 pm Hi,
This week I've been observing this issue at least once a day: at a certain point the system load starts increasing (I can see it from my CPU/disk load applet) and everything freezes, screen, mouse, keyboard. I cannot go to terminal in text mode, I cannot login with SSH (login is accepted but never shows shell). At that point the disk is highly active.
The only solution is to power down brute force.
Startup Applications (enabled by default).
This is dangerous--try using the reisub method first--The only solution is to power down brute force.
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
Thanks. I will try that.mikeflan wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:46 pm I use Chromium simultaneously with Firefox all the time - continuously - 24/7 for weeks with 16 GB RAM. 8+ FF tabs/windows and 4 Chromium tabs. No problems.
I dont' think this is your problem, but lets eliminate it. Next time you think it is happening, restart Cinnamon (Ctrl-Alt-Esc).
Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
I was not 100% aware, but I do:Do you have flatpaks?--have you added any lately? Try temporarily turning off the flatpak updater in your
Startup Applications (enabled by default).
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$ flatpak list
Name Application ID Version Branch Installation
Freedesktop.org Application Platform version 1.6 org.freedesktop.Platform 1.6 1.6 system
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 18.08.39 18.08 system
Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 20.08.13 20.08 system
Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 21.1.1 20.08 system
nvidia-340-107 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-340-107 1.4 system
nvidia-340-108 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-340-108 1.4 system
FFmpeg extension org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg 1.6 system
ffmpeg-full org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full 20.08 system
html5-codecs org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs 18.08 system
openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.0 system
Mint-Y Gtk Theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y 3.22 system
KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 5.15 system
Telegram Desktop org.telegram.desktop 2.7.4 stable system
Thanks. I will try that.This is dangerous--try using the reisub method first--
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- Make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- Copy/paste this command into the terminal:
(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter, and don't omit the space after inxi!)
Press Enter.
Copy/paste the output in your next message.
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- Make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- Copy/paste this command into the terminal:
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inxi -FxpmrzPress Enter.
Copy/paste the output in your next message.
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
This issue did not repeat so far.
Here is the output of inxi -Fxpmrz:
Here is the output of inxi -Fxpmrz:
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System: Kernel: 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6
Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z400 Workstation v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 0AE4h v: C serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 786G3 v03.60 date: 02/24/2016
Memory: RAM: total: 5.79 GiB used: 2.22 GiB (38.3%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Xeon W3540 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 46931
Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 1596/2927 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1600 2: 1600 3: 1600 4: 1600 5: 1600 6: 1600 7: 1600
8: 1600
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [Quadro NVS 295] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV98 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-74-generic
Network: Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: tg3
v: 3.137 port: d0c0 bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: ASUSTek N10 Nano 802.11n Network Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU] type: USB driver: rtl8192cu bus ID: 1-5:2
IF: wlx107b445b6d5d state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 456.46 GiB used: 246.89 GiB (54.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: TR200 size: 223.57 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3250318AS size: 232.89 GiB
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:1f.2
Partition: ID-1: / size: 27.38 GiB used: 19.38 GiB (70.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /backup size: 229.10 GiB used: 113.59 GiB (49.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
ID-3: /home size: 182.39 GiB used: 113.53 GiB (62.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-4: swap-1 size: 9.31 GiB used: 404.1 MiB (4.2%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 76 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iconnor-zoneminder-1_34-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/iconnor/zoneminder-1.34/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list
1: deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_20.04/ ./
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/linuxmint-packages ulyssa main upstream import backport
2: deb http://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/ubuntu/archive focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info: Processes: 291 Uptime: 14h 48m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
It happened again. Graphics completely frozen. I was listening to music on Spotify and the audio got broken. High hard disk activity as before.
I tried both Ctrl+Alt+Esc and Ctrl+Alt+SysRq with no effect.
I could login through SSH this time and saw this:
I tried both Ctrl+Alt+Esc and Ctrl+Alt+SysRq with no effect.
I could login through SSH this time and saw this:
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top - 23:51:59 up 13:52, 2 users, load average: 4,85, 4,41, 2,35
Tasks: 284 total, 1 running, 283 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2,4 us, 1,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 95,9 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,1 si, 0,0 st
MiB Mem : 5926,8 total, 194,3 free, 4176,7 used, 1555,9 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 9536,0 total, 9220,8 free, 315,2 used. 1381,7 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8178 jmss 20 0 1196604 72648 38232 D 76,0 1,2 5:56.63 spotify
3984 jmss 20 0 3915348 717676 135008 S 31,8 11,8 21:02.49 firefox
5802 jmss 20 0 13,8g 191408 56972 S 9,7 3,2 6:48.79 spotify
5734 jmss 20 0 3656944 142956 62568 S 5,7 2,4 10:02.53 spotify
1776 jmss 9 -11 2195740 19116 16664 S 3,4 0,3 7:54.39 pulseaudio
6224 jmss 20 0 36,8g 174168 64872 S 1,4 2,9 4:00.39 signal-desktop
5770 jmss 20 0 1237592 59352 37000 S 1,1 1,0 0:15.79 spotify
12094 jmss 20 0 2627148 168756 105544 S 0,3 2,8 0:11.26 Web Content
11961 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,3 0,0 0:07.91 kworker/2:0-events
1020 root 20 0 653284 81888 61248 S 0,3 1,3 4:42.41 Xorg
4086 jmss 20 0 3100964 340728 91744 S 0,2 5,6 3:23.91 Web Content
4335 jmss 20 0 1188768 53012 29904 S 0,2 0,9 0:24.11 chromium
4301 jmss 20 0 2658728 195388 64420 S 0,2 3,2 0:39.03 chromium
4962 jmss 20 0 9063452 246904 79724 S 0,2 4,1 3:40.02 Web Content
1049 mysql 20 0 2135080 299668 5376 S 0,1 4,9 0:20.52 mysqld
12406 jmss 20 0 2491116 133896 94428 S 0,1 2,2 0:01.13 Web Content
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:11.95 rcu_sched
2179 jmss 20 0 2934028 396440 104832 S 0,1 6,5 8:01.17 thunderbird
8382 jmss 20 0 2889864 230188 137816 S 0,1 3,8 0:26.76 Web Content
373 root 19 -1 73084 24592 23172 S 0,1 0,4 0:01.03 systemd-journal
1317 root 20 0 1371792 7576 5888 S 0,1 0,1 0:11.19 teamviewerd
1789 jmss 20 0 9280 5540 3484 S 0,1 0,1 0:02.17 dbus-daemon
2641 jmss 20 0 884036 57044 18448 S 0,1 0,9 0:07.86 megasync
4222 jmss 20 0 2479632 91300 65736 S 0,1 1,5 0:09.42 Privileged Cont
9877 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:11.50 kworker/7:16-events
10230 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:06.18 kworker/1:0-mm_percpu_wq
11065 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:08.12 kworker/0:0-events
11090 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:03.64 kworker/6:2-events
12481 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,1 0,0 0:00.38 kworker/3:1-events
734 systemd+ 20 0 24284 10088 6832 S 0,0 0,2 0:02.10 systemd-resolve
782 root 20 0 238660 7164 5980 S 0,0 0,1 0:00.30 accounts-daemon
814 root 20 0 81892 3580 3240 S 0,0 0,1 0:00.62 irqbalance
Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
You only have 6GB RAM so are probably using swap a lot. That would explain your symptoms.
You are also running with the nouveau driver, might be better with the nvidia driver.
You are also running with the nouveau driver, might be better with the nvidia driver.
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Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [Quadro NVS 295] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV98 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
I'm with AndyMH about trying the closed-source proprietary Nvidia driver. Launch Driver Manager and let it do its magic.
But I don't think 6 GB RAM as "only" 6 GB. On the contrary: I think it's rather a lot of RAM.
Apply these safe speed tweaks, notably the disabling of visual effects and the cutting down on the usual suspects, namely (browser) add-ons and such:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... -mint.html
But I don't think 6 GB RAM as "only" 6 GB. On the contrary: I think it's rather a lot of RAM.
Apply these safe speed tweaks, notably the disabling of visual effects and the cutting down on the usual suspects, namely (browser) add-ons and such:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... -mint.html
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Re: Critical behaviour during the last 3 or 4 days
I had switched to the open-source driver because I was observing graphical artefacts when the system resumed from sleep and someone advised me to do it.
Coincidentally, yesterday I got a message from system report mentioning a new closed-source driver version and I decided to try it.
I also think 6 GB of RAM for GNU/Linux is very good. However, some applications are getting heavier everyday...
Let's see.
Thanks.
Coincidentally, yesterday I got a message from system report mentioning a new closed-source driver version and I decided to try it.
I also think 6 GB of RAM for GNU/Linux is very good. However, some applications are getting heavier everyday...
Let's see.
Thanks.