bob prohaska  wrote:
> Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>>
>> Maybe if you can ping it you can ssh to it from an other PC and kill the X
server
>
> That's sort of a nuisance, since the Pi is the only thing on the
> LAN that's routinely powered up. It could be done, however.
>
>
>> Have not had any lockups so far here, not with chromium either.
>>
> _That_ is most interesting. Suggests a local problem, and the only
> thing special about my setup is use of an old Kingston USB flash
> drive for swap space. Perhaps it's time to try another device, maybe
> even a mechanical hard drive for a while.
>

It looks like the old Kinston USB flash drive is the culprit, or at
least a major contributor. I replaced it with a mechanical hard drive
and opened up a page that used to reliably lock up chromium and the Pi
in a few minutes, sometimes it took only seconds to become unresponsive:
https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/animation?satellite=goes-west&end_datetime
=latest&n_images=8&coverage=conus&channel=13&image_quality=gif&anim_method=java
script

The funny thing is that only a trifling amount of swap is used, and the
disk seems mostly inactive. With six tabs open htop reports 184 MB used.

At some point I'll get brave and try the new "enhanced" GL driver.

Thanks to all!

bob prohaska

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