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crash in Ubuntu GNU/Linux (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago by lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

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a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn't Linux have some sort of Page File?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Its not a dedicated file usually as you can setup a swap partition.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Technically you can create a fixed size pagefile in your disk and mount it as swap workout repartitioning. But Linux doesn't use swap much regardless of method.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

It only uses swap under memory pressure. You can configure your swappyness if you want it to be more aggressive

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