System lockups / kernel panics when under load
My system will choke and freeze or straight up kernel panic with very little to see in the journalctl logs. In fact it froze when I tried to grep the journalctl logs without constraining the search beforehand (the regular command still works though).
This also happens at random when playing 3D rendered games such as Totalwarhammer III (native OR proton) or Mortal Sin (proton) on any graphics setting and with no other desktop programs running. I have managed other linux installs over the years on my laptops but this is the first time I'm using it for gaming.
Games with simple demands run just fine: Balatro, Hollow Knight, Nubby Number Factory, Retro Emulators are all okay.
This is my current setup which is making it difficult fully sort out:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti - primary display
MSI Radeon RX480 - secondary display
32Gigs of ram - 16 currently dedicated to swap
I plan to disable the Radeon card to see if that helps. Reducing the graphical quality and increasing the swap memory seemed help slightly. I have not begun to tune the system until I can sort out these issues either (no clocking / experimental bios features enabled).
Thank you.
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revert all overclocks, including XMP if you haven't
see if that fixes it
swap isn't supported here, so whatever you did wouldn't be supported
go back to zram first
look in the relevant section in https://docs.bazzite.gg/
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Apologies for not being clear, I mean to say in the post 16gig RAM dedicated to zram, which is up from the default 4gigs - screen attached.
Also there are no overclocking or experiemental BIOS features enabled on my system (all default bios settings).
ujust get-logs once you encounter a freezehere are the latest logs I generated after a system lockup (broken audio on repeat, displays are frozen etc.).
I don't see anything that explicitly indicates what caused the lockup
UPDATE: found issue related to plasma causing possible memory leak:
In this instance, kde plasma service ended up crashing while looking into it, a kernel panic affected my machine while under relatively low loads (20 firefox tabs open + some utilities)
Found an incident that didn't completely lock my machine - but I need some help understanding the logs:
these events led to kernel problems: