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linux-raspi2 package

  1. Bug #1655842
  2. Comment #75

Comment 75 for bug 1655842

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Michael Dye (dye.michael) wrote :

This is plaguing Horizon project Pi2 and Pi3 devices running Xenial 16.04.2 w/ kernel 4.4.0-1050-raspi2. From a pi2:

root@horizon-00000000a17d2187:~# uname -a
Linux horizon-00000000a17d2187 4.4.0-1050-raspi2 #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 22 12:52:22 UTC 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
root@horizon-00000000a17d2187:~# free
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 942128 149548 35456 494084 757124 239716
Swap: 0 0 0

Under these circumstances, the kernel's oom-killer will kill Wifi processes (rtl_rpcd), systemd-udevd, our Ethereum client (geth), and other critical processes in attempt to stay afloat rather than using reclaimable RAM.