Manjaro keeps "shutting down" untimely

cscs · 17 January 2024 21:01

You have no swap.
With 16gb thats probably fine most of the time … but I might suggest adding something or other.
zram is usually my suggestion.
But this is unlikely to be the cause of your problems.

Oh … maybe it is swap.

After you run out of your physical memory the system is expected to lock up.

To see a quick zram suggestion click here

Awful performance since install

sudo pacman -Syu zram-generator
Then edit the configuration file. (use your preferred editor)
sudo micro /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
You want it to look like:
[zram0]
zram-size = ram / 1
compression-algorithm = zstd
swap-priority = 100
fs-type = swap
You may want to ensure zswap is disabled as well. One way is to add to the boot options, at /etc/default/grub the option zswap.enabled=0.
That is to add it to one of the CMD lines so that (Assuming no other options) it would look like:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="zswap.enabled=0"
Then run
sudo update-grub
And reboot.
You can check the configured swap/zram using
swapon
zramctl

pontek:

Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20UDCTO1WW v: ThinkPad T14 Gen 1
    serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20UDCTO1WW serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: R1BET58W(1.27 ) date: 10/20/2020

Your BIOS is also very out of date, especially considering some of the relatively newish components.
If my search is correct