a lot of processing freezes my pc so i have to hard reset/reboot/restart
5 days ago by goofsqueak to c/linux
like 95% of the time this happens its when i play minecraft (on lunar client) and in a discord call at the same time, PLEASE help 😭😭😭
distro: endeavourOS
gpu: nvidia rtx 3060 ti
cpu: amd ryzen 7 5700G
de: kde plasma wayland
if i need to add any extra info then please say so
it was fine before but it seems like its gotten worse after i got a liquid glass theme thingo but idrk
(copy and pasted message btw) i now lowered the allocated wam (ram) in lunar client so it should be better? before i changed it my used ram was like 14/15 (idk why its not 16 but okay) and now its like 10/15. I will update you guys soon
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Traditionally, "freezing" means that the system doesn't respond at all. More than likely, your system is just swapping heavily and slowing down to a crawl. If that's what's happening, the hard drive activity light will be on constantly.
The best fix for this is more memory, but RAM is currently expensive. If you can't afford to buy more, you may have to try to cope in software. First, do The Bleeding Obvious: close any programs that you don't immediately need before you start that Discord call. This includes not leaving unnecessary webpages open, just in case.
See what your distro has to say about swappiness and how to set it. You probably want a value lower than the default 60, maybe even as low as 0.
If it gets worse over tme, it's possible that something you're running has a memory leak. You may be able to figure out what using top or similar and seeing which programs' memory use grows over time. Restarting the greedy ones periodically may be able to keep your system from bogging down, at the cost of some inconvenience.
Moving to a bare compositor rather than the relatively heavyweight KDE might also free up some RAM, but I'm not sure how much that will actually help.
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