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How can I prevent repeated malloc from slowing down system to a halt before the program is killed with SIGKILL?
Obviously I don't typically run: #include <stdlib.h> int main() { while (malloc(50)); return 0; } But I have been attempting to compile large projects. When running cmake, my computer's ...
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OOM killer doesn't work properly, leads to a frozen OS
For years, the OOM killer of my operating system doesn't work properly and leads to a frozen system. When the memory usage is very high, the whole system tends to "freeze" (in fact: becoming extremely ...
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Memory usage inexorably creeping upward
Just within the past day, my Arch Linux system has begun eating memory. This seems to begin when the system is powered on, and I cannot find a way to stop it. The symptom is that the reported memory ...
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Linux freezing randomly
My Computer has been freezing a lot lately, and with no apparent reason.It freezes even if my usage is 3% CPU and 9% RAM. I was using Windows 8 until I installed Ubuntu 14.04. It was really slow, ...
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How can my HDD swap without a swap partition?
I have no swap partition on my disk because I prefer having the OOM reaper kill anything it wants quickly rather than having to wait 10 minutes for my swap partition to get filled + 5 other minutes to ...
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Why is scdaemon ballooning out of control?
My system keeps getting wedged because an scdaemon process has been spawned that has grown to consume all free memory on the computer. (I do not use, and have never used, smart cards in the vicinity ...
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