[Mageia-dev] Frequent freezes in M2

[Anne Wilson]

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On 02/01/13 16:35, AL13N wrote:
> Op woensdag 2 januari 2013 11:55:06 schreef Anne Wilson:
>> This last couple of days I've had frequent total freezes of my
>> M2 system.  If I can get to the System Activity monitor in time I
>> can kill akonadi_nepomuktag_resource and I can work again - if
>> I'm too late I have to hard reset.
>> 
>> There must be some way to stop this.  It appears to use
>> increasing amounts of CPU (and memory?) until it reaches a
>> critical level.  What could have changed in the last few days to
>> be causing this?
> 
> you're symptoms look like OOM
> 
> ie: out of memory
> 
> imho: nepomuk is a beast and uses too much memory.
> 
Like many people, I don't see any advantage.

> but perhaps your swap is not enabled?

As far as I know - how do I check?  I really can't remember having to
check for years.

There seems to be some connection with Firefox.  Clicking on an email
link in Thunderbird brings up Firefox (against all my efforts to
change it to Chrome) and at that point the fan starts screaming and
the system starts to slow while nepomuk takes ever more CPU time.

Anne
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