Out of memory (oom) issues

[Chris]

On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 09:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:33:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 08:00:25 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > > 
> > > If you run the system monitor (or command line equivalent) do you
> > > see
> > > that the memory is low and/or that a particular process is
> > > hogging the
> > > memory?  
> > By command line the following commands are helpful
> > 
> >  top
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >  atop
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >  htop
> > 
> > and just in case it should be related to tmpfs
> > 
> >  df -h | grep tmpfs
> PS:
> 
> Assuming that tmpfs should be the culprit, it's possible to assign
> more
> RAM to tmpfs by an entry in /etc/fstab.
> 
>   tmpfs          /tmp        tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G     0 0
> 
> This is just an example, replacing 3G by any other value might be
> appropriate. The default without an fstab entry is half of the RAM.
> 
> Perhaps taking a look at the frame buffer, by e.g.
> 
>   sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
> 
> is useful, too, assuming that the graphics doesn't have it's own
> memory.
> The shared video memory could be changed by the BIOS settings.
> 

chris at localhost:~$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer                           
  [Created at bios.459]
  Unique ID: rdCR.DxYftecIvTA
  Hardware Class: framebuffer
  Model: "Intel(R)Eaglelake Graphics Controller"
  Vendor: "Intel Corporation"
  Device: "Intel(R)Eaglelake Graphics Controller"
  SubVendor: "Intel(R)Eaglelake Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS"
  SubDevice: 
  Revision: "Hardware Version 0.0"
  Memory Size: 31 MB + 960 kB
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe1feffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0360: 848x480 (+896), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0361: 848x480 (+1728), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0362: 848x480 (+3392), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033c: 1920x1440 (+1920), 8 bits
  Mode 0x034d: 1920x1440 (+3840), 16 bits
  Mode 0x035c: 1920x1440 (+7680), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033a: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits
  Mode 0x034b: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits
  Mode 0x035a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
  Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+832), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
-- 
Chris
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