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Linux crashing issues (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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So, I made the switch to Linux Mint about 2 weeks ago, and have been having some issues, specifically with gaming and art programs.

The issues seem to be related to memory. I don't have the memory to open a large art file in either Krita or GIMP. My Coral Island game keeps crashing (OOM - kill process).

So, it would be easy to assume my computer just doesn't have the memory for these activities, except . . . they worked fine on Windows. I could open my art files in Photoshop and Coral Island ran like a dream for months.

It's disheartening because everywhere I look says the issue must be with my machine not having enough memory. But my machine could run everything just fine when using a different OS (with way more things installed).

Does anyone have any help or insight they might be able to provide? I have no interest in going back to Windows.

Thank you!

**SOLVED - increased the swap to 8 GB, which seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you, everyone, for your help!

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how much memory do you have? how much swap? usually linux uses less memory than windows.

[–] LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

8 gig memory, 2 gig swap

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hm, not too much but not so little that it should cause a problem. maybe there's something running in the background? i've not used mint for a while but i think you can see all running programs in the system monitor.

[–] LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Didn't see anything that stood out on the system monitor. Increasing the swap seemed to have fixed it for now, but I'll probably do a bit more looking to see if I can figure out what caused the issue in the first place. Thank you very much for your time and help!

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

As lime mentions, look at swap. The Mint installer should have suggested it, but if not it's pretty easy to setup after the fact (just use a swap file instead of a partition). Windows does this as well and it should pretty clearly deal with OOM.

Coral Island has a platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should be absolutely no sweat to run if you have the resources.

[–] LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

Looks like increasing the swap worked! Played for ~40 mins without any crashing, freezing, or lagging. Thank you so much for your help!

[–] LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

We have increased the swap and will try to play again after dinner. Thank you!

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you ran a memory check? Linux and Windows use memory layouts pretty differently so you may have avoided the bad bits before that are now an issue. https://memtest.org/

[–] LucyMcGoose@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the resource!

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

The other thing to do would be to see what is using so much memory. You can use

htop

And sort by memory use.