[Discuss] [discuss] ugly problem

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

daniel barrett wrote:
> On July 22, 2018, dan moylan wrote:
>> since yesterday i have been having irregular freezeups on my
>> computer[...].

> I've had freeze-ups like for two reasons (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). Perhaps
> these fixes might help.

> Reason 1: Transparent Hugepage issues.
> Fix: Run on startup:

> if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled; then
>    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> fi
> if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; then
>    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
> fi

fwiw i did this and haven't had a freezeup since (thanks,
daniel).  however i'm continuing as well to look at the
other suggestions for window managers and browsers.

thanks all,
ole dan

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