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?
Getting sluggish and then freezing sounds like RAM full. Earlyoom might help, it kills the abuser quicker than the in-kernel but notoriously slow-triggering solution.
And prelockd might help too; it reserves place for some libraries in memory, so they don’t get involved in the freeze haze.
Never knew about prelockd, seems like a pretty neat and useful idea, thanks!