[Trisquel-users] Re : There is a mysterious "erase my work" key somewhere ...

[lcerf]

Here, the "gnome-system-monitor" process takes less than 12 Mio, according to  
itself. Besides my own programs, I observe that Abrowser always is the  
application that eats up more space on my system. I opened it some 12 hours  
ago but it currently renders only Trisquel's forum. Yet it takes more than  
500 Mio according to the "System monitor". While rendering more and heavier  
Web pages, that number significantly grows. Given that I have 8 Gio of RAM  
(and as much swap), it is OK.

If a system runs out of space (RAM and swap), the kernel kills some process  
it believes is the culprit. That is what amenex went through. If you run out  
of RAM but not out of swap, then the system is unbearably slow... but you get  
to choose what process to kill! I believe amenex has no swap. I would advise  
for such a partition (or file) for the reason I have just given.