Hello to all. I use manjaro gnome in a laptop with SSD 250 GB dual boot with Windows. Sometimes, especially if I have too many tabs open in Firefox, the system freezes and I can do nothing but force shutdown button. The screen freezes (doesn’t get black), mouse and keyboard doesn’t work (can’t swit…

Thanks for the information provided. But a more comprehensive report of system information would be inxi -Farz [image] lucasgossen: I think this is related to RAM usage, because it’s more frequent when I have many tabs open in Firefox, but it shouldn’t be happening anyway, since I have 8 GB…

Firefox is a memory hog, or maybe it just leaks like a sieve. :roll_eyes: You’ll find you will be starting to go into swap after watching YouTube videos for more than a few days in some cases, maybe less; depends on usage. Restarting the browser periodically does buy time between reboots, but not …

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[image] lucasgossen: it shouldn’t be happening anyway, since I have 8 GB RAM Trust me, with firefox and the way modern websites are designed, you will easily run out of RAM if you only have 8 GiB, and without swap, that’s going to cause you problems.

Thanks for the answers so far. inxi -Farz  ✔ System: Kernel: 6.1.126-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1 clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64 root=UUID=0f777067-40cb-4…

Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. It is always recommended to have at least some swap; this should help to avoid the freezes you describe. I’d go for at least half your RAM size (preferably a bit more than the total, though; in this case I’d suggest ~9G). Note: swap can either be a partition,…

[image] cscs: Your root partition is getting dangerously close to full. Well spotted; I missed that. Not enough space left to download and install the next raft of updates, probably. Check how much you have in your pacman cache: du -h /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ … it builds up over time and ne…

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cscs 10 February 2025 23:00 8

I would rectify that.

You can create some swap space without formatting any partitions.

One approach is in fact zram;

Or another is to use a swap file;

PS.

Your root partition is getting dangerously close to full.
It may be a good idea to do some cleaning.