Re: I would be remiss if I didn't post...

candycanearter07 wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 12:35 this Friday (GMT):

vallor wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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Linux lm 6.11.8 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 14 19:05:52 PST 2024 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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real 386.74
user 18143.96
sys 3632.81

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My Debian Sid mini PC and Arch laptop are at 6.11.7.
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The Ubuntu laptop remains at 5.15.0-122.
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Remember I had added a 4Gb swapfile awhile back? Well Chromium and a make job
ate up the swap too, and I ended up resetting the mini PC... which made it boot
to Windows.  I had to go to the BIOS and rearrange the boot sequence. Wotta
pain.
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So now I keep an eye on Conky's memory meters.  Also added a script to run as
sudo to clean up memory:
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    sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && swapoff -a && swapon -a
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Not sure why I have this issue only on the Debian machine.

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I'm on 6.1.0-27 according to conky.

What's your distro and distro version? Forgive me if you posted it before.

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