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On 2023-07-30, J.O. Aho <
user@example.net> wrote:
> On 7/30/23 19:59, William Unruh wrote:
>> On 2023-07-30, J.O. Aho <
user@example.net> wrote:
>>> On 7/30/23 00:39, William Unruh wrote:
>>>> On 2023-07-29, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 29/07/2023 11:44, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>>>> William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
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>>
>> How much ram do you have?
>
> 64GB, I used to have 32, but I ran into the issue and I was hoping that
> doubling the amount of RAM should make it less affecting, gosh I was wrong.
I have 8 GB. ps says plasmashell right now has VSZ of 1.9GB and %MEM of
3.1% ( which sould be 250MB I guess.
>
>> Mu plasmashell right now is 2GB VSZ
>
> I think I usually had it to take ~700MB when it started, if it was up on
> 2GB I knew it would start to eat more memory, so a "plasmashell
> --replace" was the only thing that prevented it from going bad, for a
> while, in best case you buy yourself another day.
>
>
>> I run Intel onboard graphics. There is no slowdown beforehand. It just
>> as if someone threw a switch to shut everything down, except that the
>> image keeps showing (ie the grephics card is still sending out a
>> signal).
>
> You will have a desktop on you screen all the way till you reboot, this
> far I never seen the plasmashell process to be auto killed, if it would
> then your screen would turn black, but a mouse pointer that you can move
> around.
>
>
>> No disk activity, no slowdown. just stop.
>
> If you had been a hour earlier, I think you would maybe caught the
> slowdown, as it`s related to the amount of free RAM you have left, when
> you don`t it`s the freeze time.
I have about 8GB of swap, so it should slow down when it starts to use
swap.
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