[Mageia-dev] Frequent freezes in M2

Thu Jan 3 11:30:33 CET 2013

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+On 02/01/13 16:35, AL13N wrote:
+> Op woensdag 2 januari 2013 11:55:06 schreef Anne Wilson:
+>> This last couple of days I've had frequent total freezes of my
+>> M2 system.  If I can get to the System Activity monitor in time I
+>> can kill akonadi_nepomuktag_resource and I can work again - if
+>> I'm too late I have to hard reset.
+>> 
+>> There must be some way to stop this.  It appears to use
+>> increasing amounts of CPU (and memory?) until it reaches a
+>> critical level.  What could have changed in the last few days to
+>> be causing this?
+> 
+> you're symptoms look like OOM
+> 
+> ie: out of memory
+> 
+> imho: nepomuk is a beast and uses too much memory.
+> 
+Like many people, I don't see any advantage.
+
+> but perhaps your swap is not enabled?
+
+As far as I know - how do I check?  I really can't remember having to
+check for years.
+
+There seems to be some connection with Firefox.  Clicking on an email
+link in Thunderbird brings up Firefox (against all my efforts to
+change it to Chrome) and at that point the fan starts screaming and
+the system starts to slow while nepomuk takes ever more CPU time.
+
+Anne
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