On 22/03/2020 03:06, bob prohaska wrote:
> Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>> On a sunny day (Sat, 21 Mar 2020 19:09:23 +0000 (UTC)) it happened bob
>> prohaska  wrote in :
>>
>>> 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=javascript
>>
>> Nice site, indeed flawless in chromium here
>> Also tried the other sats and animation.
>>
> Which graphics driver and Pi are you using? On my Pi3
> only the legacy graphics driver works; the others lock
> up even after replacing the old Kingston usb flash swap
> device with a mechanical hard disk.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> bob prohaska
>
My neighbours laptop was getting very slow and locking up for seconds at
a time, sometimes minutes.

Using SMART to investigate his HDD showed huge numbers of 'command
failures'.

It now has an SSD in there, and the linux is now the latest too.

Runs nicely again!


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