A Strange-ism. KDE on -current crashes.
by BobTheSlackUser from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54J3P)
All,
I've been working from home with Slackware-current for the last few months for work (Work sent me home for COVID-19). But a strange thing happens. At odd times, within a few minutes to an hour, whenever I use the keyboard or the mouse, KDE will crash. All software running in KDE will crash with it. BUT x-windows itself and linux do NOT crash. I can just log back in, and keep working until the next crash in a few minutes to an hour (mostly within a few minutes).
But here is the strange-ism part. If I will mine some cryto-currencies in the background (Monero or PascalCoin -- something CPU intensive), and stress my CPU to about 70% to 80%, then KDE will work just fine for days on end. As soon as I stop mining, KDE will crash again within minutes.
Mining in this manner costs about 60 extra watts of CPU power, and with Monero at $65 ish dollars, I break even with the power usage. Still, it's strange.
Has anyone ever heard of this?
Thanks,
Bob
I've been working from home with Slackware-current for the last few months for work (Work sent me home for COVID-19). But a strange thing happens. At odd times, within a few minutes to an hour, whenever I use the keyboard or the mouse, KDE will crash. All software running in KDE will crash with it. BUT x-windows itself and linux do NOT crash. I can just log back in, and keep working until the next crash in a few minutes to an hour (mostly within a few minutes).
But here is the strange-ism part. If I will mine some cryto-currencies in the background (Monero or PascalCoin -- something CPU intensive), and stress my CPU to about 70% to 80%, then KDE will work just fine for days on end. As soon as I stop mining, KDE will crash again within minutes.
Mining in this manner costs about 60 extra watts of CPU power, and with Monero at $65 ish dollars, I break even with the power usage. Still, it's strange.
Has anyone ever heard of this?
Thanks,
Bob