My Puppy hangs on (SOLVED)

[pp4mnklinux]

Hello, everybody:

You can see my system specifications at the attached file....

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====> BASE STATUS <====

Linux Kernel: 3.14.20 (i686)
Version: #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 12:54:43 GMT 2015
PAE Enabled: Yes

Username: root
Language: es_ES.UTF-8
Keyboard: es
Num-Lock: on
Timezone: Europe/Madrid

Distro: tahrpup 6.0.2
Desktop Environment: Enlightenment
Desktop Start: xwin enlightenment_start

Development:
Bash: 4.3.29
Geany: 1.24.1
Gtkdialog: 0.8.3
Perl: 5.18.2
Python: 2.7.6
Yad: 0.12.4
--
busybox: 1.21.0
dhcpcd: 5.6.4
GlibC: 2.19
OpenSSL: 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014, built on: Mon Apr 7 21:20:02 UTC 2014
wpa_supplicant: 2.1

Firewall: ON (ip_tables active)
Network Status: eth0
Wireless Network: No wireless connection
Session Data: Received 3.4 KB, Sent 2.0 KB
Monthly Data: Received 37008 MB, Sent 3504 MB

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... and my problem is when I use a lot of opened windows (browsers -FF, Chrome, SlimJet with dozens of open windows).

My system stop responding during some time (minutes) and from time to time I must push the reset button.

Is this normal... can I solve it or the only solution is not to open so much programs?

I'm using cpu frequency scalling tool, ... what is the best config for it???

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP

[amigo]

How much RAM do you have and do you have a swap partition or file?

[backi]

Hi pp4mnklinux !

Just another question ......how and where did you get that Enlightenment Desktop from ?

[Peterm321]

In my experience this type of locking tends to be caused by either a dodgy device driver or by out of memory.

Seems most likely in this thread the issue is Out Of Memory (OOM).

Best option is to create a swapfile or better a swap partition though swap partitions or files involve many write cycles best avoided on flash based devices.

There are some kernel tunables in relation to OOM that may be worth trying to see if any difference:

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sysctl -w vm.oom_kill_allocating_task=1
sysctl -w vm.panic_on_oom=1

There are quite a few tunables in relation to virtual memory that may be worth experimenting with, but it seems in this case that getting more memory or enabling swap is a good idea.

[pp4mnklinux]

Thanks a lot for your answers
I implemented a swap file (in the same partition, I'll try later with a different one) with 4GigaBites and I'll see what happens.

The enlightenment I have it's downloaded from...


1.- http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WindowManagers

or

2.- http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManagers/

(I cant remember but its the one hosted at... https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qkB ... zhGMDg3Tlk


THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP !!!!

[amigo]

4MB is not much for a swap area -that will only cache a couple of web pages, at most. If you can spare the space, try at least 100MB.

[backi]

Hi !

Better a minimum 500 mega bytes up to 1000 mega bytes Swap-space .

[Peterm321]

I think pp4mnklinux mean 4GigaBytes, thats actually what I use for swap.

[pp4mnklinux]

I think pp4mnklinux mean 4GigaBytes, thats actually what I use for swap.