Freezing Using OpenMandriva

[Novan]

Thank you both for your help, first of all, it’s much appreciated!

@zeroability

I’m not sure what other distros you have tried, but we tend to use newer versions of things. If your system has firmware updates, you should probably make sure they are done. I would recommend the manufacturer’s utility for that.

Lastly, you are using packages that we do not build but provide as a convenience (i.e. Discord, Steam, and Brave). If resolving the video driver issues doesn’t work, you may need to contact them.

For added context, this is my first Linux distro on PC, second overall if counting my Steam Deck, which I’ve had for a couple of years and have done some modding on, so while I’m not a 100% Linux beginner, I’m still decidedly a novice. In hindsight, I probably could have been clearer about this.

@zeroability

Please use the code tag for command output:

I apologize for that, I though I had.

@zeroability

What things have you tried from your search?

The primary thing I’ve tried is installing and activating zram-init, as well as unsuccessfully fiddling with the settings (more on that below). After that didn’t work out, I felt as though I had exhausted my meager Linux knowledge, so I shifted my focus to gathering as much information as possible to get better help here.

@zeroability

Are you using a nvidia card (possibly with HDMI or a hybrid graphics such as a notebook PC)? If you are, and it’s a 1650 or newer, you need to use the open driver. There is a pinned topic on the testing for that which explains how to install it, and you will need to use that going forward. Otherwise, you may want to get an AMD gpu in the very near future.

@SomeDudeInAZ

I just went through your hardware list. It looks like you’re using an iGPU?

I am currently using a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, so I do have an AMD GPU and I do not have an iGPU to use. Additionally, all the computer parts I own are already being used in this machine.

@SomeDudeInAZ

As for zram, it looks like you’ve set it for up to half your ram - typically zram would limit things to 8GB:

@SomeDudeInAZ

I notice you’re also using zram for /tmp and /var/tmp

The large RAM size has also stuck out to me as a possible cause, and I tried to solve it before, and thought I did by editing /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf.txt, but it appears that I was wrong. I attempted to fix it again today by uninstalling and reinstalling zram-init, (while also making sure to not reinstall /var/tmp), but it seems to be defaulting to the large size. I’ve tried to fix this by editing /lib/systemd/zram-generator.conf and trying on zram-generator.conf.txt again, but neither worked. I’ve also noticed that the post on this forum that I used to set up zRAM (which I’ve linked below) says that the file /etc/modprobe.d/zram.conf should be created automatically when installing zRAM, but this is not happening on my computer, which is likely relevant if I were to hazard a guess.

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/post-installation-how-to-improve-performance-and-stability-with-zram/4249

@SomeDudeInAZ

If you want to squeak out a little more performance move the user cache to ram also - again using tmpfs in fstab

I have done this now, I think that I’ve done it right, but I’m not sure, I’ll attach my fstab below. If this doesn’t work, I’ll figure out how to do the swap-zcache method you suggested and try it.

fstab_of_freezing_machine.txt (623 Bytes)

@SomeDudeInAZ

Generally for what you say you do, I would imagine you’d want to maximize the portion of your ram for video (typ 1 or 2 gb) depending on bios

Could you point me to where I can find out how to do this?

Once again, thank you!