On 10/27/17 23:33, J Vans wrote: > I decided to post this in misc because I am not sure if this a bug or > unsupported hardware. It is a Lenovo 110s laptop. > > Apm works on this machine. Suspend and resume work on this machine. > > When running X, and doing things that require a lot of memory (open > firefox and watch a youtube video + 3 or 4 more tabs + open evince > and open a sizeable PDF was my test) this machine freezes, and the > screen goes black. Sometimes this happens in 30 seconds, sometimes it > takes 10 minutes or more. I also tested with Chrome and Midori, and > got the same behavior. I also tested playing video locally and the > results were the same. On a few occasions it crashed while not doing > much, but for the most part if I keep memory usage low (i.e. use a > text based browser, for example) it does not crash. DDB is opening in > the background after the crash, but I cannot see it. I type ps, and > trace, but they do not show up in the messages after rebooting. I > have however been able to get several core dumps. They look identical > to eachother, which leads me to believe it is the same problem > happening in each crash. > > The above behavior is consistant across i3, Fvwm, and Cwm, with apmd > enabled or no, across all flag settings of apm, and > machdep.aperture=0, 1, and 2. > > Serial console is not an option on this machine but I have quite a > collection of core dumps. Any advice on trouble shooting this further > (or if it's unsupported hardware) would be appreciated. ... > $dmesg > OpenBSD 6.2-current (DEBUG) #2: Thu Oct 26 18:46:09 CDT 2017 > myu...@groo.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/DEBUG > real mem = 1970376704 (1879MB) > avail mem = 1900142592 (1812MB)
chrome, firefox, and other bloatware on 2G RAM? In my experience with 4G RAM, it's just not enough. Are you sure you have entered the Swap Hell Zone? Nick.
