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(11th Oct, 2013 01:58 AM)numanoids Wrote:  I'm finding this also on a 256MB Pi. I thought it might have been the card at first so swapped it with one running on a 512MB Pi but the behaviour seems to persist. At first its fast and responsive btu after a while it grinds to a halt.

1) edit /etc/default/zram-swap and change SIZE=128 to let's say SIZE=50. this was a very stupid bug (not considering 256 model with split 128/128. actually what happened is that from 126xxx kb system memory available to system was !! 128xxx !! allocated to in-mem zram swap. consequences are clear (OOM).

2) there was a patched zram-swap package but current version (as devel Beta2) is far away. and dependencies would probably force your system to upgrade to Beta2.

3) anyhow, this should avoid OOM, but still beta1X was swapping to file by default which is not ultra fast solution on btrfs filesystem. if you are skilled enough, shrink btrfs filesystem and create a swap partition at the end of your storage device.

finally, if you don't have bulletproof reasons to keep B1X you are running, just upgrade to B2. B2 handles all this automatically.

... but again, option 1) should help ...