Bug#820955: linux: When memory all used, cursor lags, keyboard does not respond, I am forced to reboot

[Marco Tamassia <nazgul17@gmail.com>]

Hi Ben,

thanks for your prompt reply. I responded inline, see below. I am happy to help.

Marco

On 14 April 2016 at 11:58, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

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Why have you deleted the system information from your report?

I am behind a proxy, so I can't send the report directly with reportbug. I therefore selected the option to save in a temporary file and just copy-pasted the content in my previous email.

If you could instruct me on how to generate a report with all the info you need, I will happily create it.

How much RAM is in this system?

16GB.

Have you changed any of the VM sysctl settings?

I have no clue what that is, so probably not, unless I did it indirectly, without knowing it.

Does the 'OOM killer' run when you fill up memory?  Which processes
does it kill?

Can't tell, because I am prevented from inputting anything.

I would generally recommend having a small swap partition, though it
won't help if processes are actively using more data than there is RAM
in the system.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Marco