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Subject: Memory issues revisited
From: Chris Ahlstrom
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 14:10 UTC

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From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us (Chris Ahlstrom)
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Subject: Memory issues revisited
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Some might remember that I had trouble with memory being used until swap itself
was full, caused really crappy system response. This was on a mini PC (N100
CPU) running Debian Sid.

I wrote a "drop_cache" script to clean things up when I would notice the issue
looming.

I suspected either Chromium or Conky, but never got to the real issue.

Now, many updates later, the problem, if it is still there, is much mitigated.

As an aside, updates come thick and fast on Debian Sid. The same with Arch.

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Subject	Author
Memory issues revisited	Chris Ahlstrom