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@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-08-15 21:57:54

This incite in to what my ubuntu system is doing that would have taken hours of time to research if I ever could have learned it at all had I not used an LLM. I'll continue to caveat that LLMs have many many things about them that are bad on multiple levels.
Using LLMs to fix system problems is doing something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
#ai

Summary of the whole investigation:
- The "crash" was a systemd-oomd/earlyoom OOM cascade, not a kernel panic or hardware fault β€” the shutdown itself was clean.
- Root driver: Firefox (running unrestarted for 5+ days) ballooned to ~17 GB RAM; likely contributors are the long session plus extensions that run continuous scripts on video pages (AutoTwitchPoints, enhanced-h264ify) β€” worth watching if it recurs.
- Fixed: removed the redundant earlyoom daemon, and added an early soft memory cap so th…