Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:07:01 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>On a few occasions the machine has crashed out of X and
>>shown an out of memory error, but most of the time it
>>simply stops responding. I am using the experimental GL
>>desktop, the standard one is too slow to be useful. The
>>problem appeared a couple of months ago and shows no sign
>>of abating.
>>
>>
>         I'd recommend opening a console and running some memory monitor
program
> ("top", configured to sort by memory [the default, I think, is CPU -- check
> "man top"). Check the values shown periodically, and especially when the
> system hangs.
>
>         Many graphical web browsers tend to be memory hogs.
>
>         Might also want to try configuring a small USB hard-drive with a swap
> file/partition (file is probably easier, since it doesn't require making
> partitions on the drive -- though you may want to format the drive with
> EXT3 or EXT4). You do NOT want to create a swap file on the SD card --
> swapping will kill an SD card rapidly (besides being rather slow).
>

The machine has an 8GB usb flash drive for swap. It probably can't use the
whole thing, but some is better than none. Without hardware swap Chromium
is totally unusable. With it, usually Chromium works fairly well. The issue
surfaced after an upgrade about three months ago.

When it did report an error the whole GUI was gone, so there wasn't an
easy way to capture the message. Maybe it's time to use macPencil next
time it occurs.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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