On 10/16/18 4:19 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Samuel, > > > On 2018-10-16 17:48, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 10/15/18 11:20 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>> Sorry, I wasn't clear - originally (some months ago) the system would >>> slowly grind to >>> a halt - if I got indications it was going to happen, I could sometimes >>> shutdown >>> properly. More recently it is just Chrome >> >> That could just be some process (Chrome?) using all the available >> memory and forcing the system to swap badly. > > > Yes, I think so but I am still surprised that Chrome could cause such a > result on a > relatively fast machine with 32GB of RAM. > > >>> crashing out with all the Chrome windows disappearing. I am able to >>> restart Chrome >>> but I suspect the system is left in an unstable state so I usually do a >>> manual reboot >>> anyway . . >> >> If it's just Chrome crashing, your system is unlikely to be in a bad >> state unless you have some indication otherwise. Try running chrome >> from the command line and see if there is any useful info when it >> crashes. Also check the journal. > > > There must be some incremental problem that is getting worse with time - > otherwise how > is the increasing frequency of Chrome crashes explained? I think it is > unlikely to be > hardware and more likely to be a Chrome problem - which seems to be > exacerbated by > watching YouTube videos . . I set up a XFCE Panel button and shell script to > actually > play videos with mpv OUTSIDE of the Chrome YouTube Window / tab but that > didn't help . .
Not sure if it would make any difference but your subject seems to indicate you're using kernel-core; 4.16.15-300? The latest update is 4.18.13-200.fc28. Any reason for not updating the kernel? Anything else not updated? -- Cardinal Rule of Presentations: "Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them." _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
