Out of memory (oom) issues

[Chris]

On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 10:46 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 03.09.2016, 15:23 -0500 schrieb Chris:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > you also seem to be running wicd *and* NetworkManager at the same
> > > time,
> > > i guess they start wrangling about your network cards (i guess
> > > the
> > > modprobe process in the list is related to this too) only one
> > > tool
> > > should manage your hardware, pick one and turn off the other ... 
> > I took a look at startup processes on boot and it shows
> > networkmanager
> > set to 'no' and wicd to 'yes' though looking at top I see that both
> > are
> > running. I never noticed was wicd used in 14.04LTS? 
> wicd has never been supported or officially recommended in ubuntu.
> note
> that startup-applications only applies to the UI part of network
> manager (nm-applet). the system daemon (NetworkManager) obviously
> still
> runs as you can see by looking at your processes.

I just stopped wicd. Oddly yesterday I could swear that when I did that
the network went down. Guess I was imagining it. I'll set wicd not to
start at boot time then. I use Webmin to do quite a few things like
this, makes it easier for me.
> > 
> > Found nothing useful in /var/crash however I did install Variety on
> > the
> > 29th of Aug
> i did notice variety in the logs, but it didnt seem to actually take
> much ram there ... though as i just learned it can use external tools
> like convert to apply filters and effect to your wallpaper on the
> fly 
> ... that could indeed be very ram hungry, especially if it downloads
> random stuff from the internet all the time too where you cant really
> predict what it takes to adjust it to your screen or filter
> selection.
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
I stopped Variety yesterday afternoon at 3:24pm. Left Evo up all night
so I'd know for sure if there was an oom as it would probably be
closed. No issues so to really verify that Variety is the cause I
started it again this morning at 8:30 but only using my ~/Wallpaper
folder, not downloading wallpapers, or quotes. I even disabled the
clock that it has. So, I'll see where it goes from here. If it goes so
many hours without an oom I'll slowly add in features to see what
causes it to happen and then get with the author.


-- 
Chris
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