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Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it? (feddit.dk)

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Hi all, sorry if I post this the wrong place.

I have a laptop running mint with qtile which sometimes freezes. To the point where nothing responds and I need to kill it. I've tried: sudo journalctl But I don't get any information which helps me.

Can anyone help to debug it?

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[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is my first time hearing about zram. I tried looking into it myself but there's still some things I could find answers to. Are there any downsides to using zram, or is it something that I can set and forget about? If I were to be using compression tools, like 7zip, would I be able to use a higher dictionary size than I normally can, or would zram cause problems outside of potentially slower compression speeds?

Edit: I think I'm just going to test this myself. I've been reading more about zram and alternatives and it seems like there's conflicting information.