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Is there any way to un-freeze my device when it freezes, without shutting down and losing my work? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm using an XPS 13 9350 with 16GB of RAM and the Intel Graphics 540. I am using Fedora KDE spin. When I am using computer, either randomly or when I start a program, my computer will slow down and quickly fully freeze. In this state, the only thing I can do is shut it down. Is there any way to make it so that a program is killed, or something else that doesn't fully stop my system?

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[–] taiidan@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ctrl + Alt + F[1-0] to access other TTYs which might still be responsive even if your desktop environment is unresponsive. Pull up top/htop and ID the problematic process to kill.
Agree with using an oom killer.
Do you need more swap? Can use swap file if expanding swap partition is problematic.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Ahh, the old ‘ssh into my primary from my old laptop’ trick. Works well.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I'll check these out the next time this happens.