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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:50:08 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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>>> Magic SysReq would probably have helped in those situations. ext3/4 |
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>>> only journal metadata by default, you can specify a mount option to |
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>>> also journal data but it impacts performance. |
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>> When X hangs and I lose the keyboard to the extent where neither |
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>> Ctrl+Alt+F1, or Ctrl+Alt+Del would work, I will use ssh to connect |
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>> remotely and stop the hanging process or restat the X server. If ssh |
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>> is also not working, I use the magic SysReq sequence to stop processes, |
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>> sync the disks and reboot, or shutdown. I don't recall losing data in |
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>> such cases, although when I have time I run fsck with Live media just |
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>> in case. |
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> I do the same, but configuring the power button to do a clean shutdown |
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> may like life simpler. |
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I don't have a second system to ssh in with but if I did, that's what |
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I'd do as well, or try at least. Recently, I only run into trouble when |
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a tab on Firefox goes memory hungry. Most of the time it grows slowly |
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and I'm able to catch it. I just close Firefox or just kill that one |
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process, which kills Tree Style Tab add-on. Once it consumes my memory |
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and most of my swap, it gets pretty unresponsive. o_O I think I did a |
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thread on this a while back. I'm not sure which to blame, the add-on or |
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Firefox or even both. |
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It's rare that I have a hard lock up that is the kernel itself. Usually |
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I can get something to work given enough time. Still, given the amount |
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of data I have stored here, some irreplaceable, options are nice. Good |
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clean options are really nice. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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