23 Jul
2021
23 Jul
'21
10:36 a.m.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 09:54, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 23/07/2021 09:39, Steve Mynott wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 08:50, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
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Do you run Firefox? It's Javascript from rubbish websites that causes the problem in my experience.
Yes it's usually the browser and sometimes a recently installed brower plugin.
If you wait the Out of Memory Killer (OOM) should kill it.
There are also some key sequences which may help (But not all distros have these enabled).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_shortcuts#Kernel_(SysRq)
Alt+SysRq+s will Sync
Although how long does OOM take to kick in, typically?
Too long to be of practical use on a desktop!
S