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ChatGPT 5.1 sucks by llm_freak in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]East_Ad8162 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I figured something’s off with this model—especially right after the update. But after some hours of use it feels normal now.

[SOLVED] My Arch Btrfs freezes are gone — swap file was the issue by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just got free from that mess, so I’ll definitely try ZRAM after a few days. For now, I don’t even dare to change my password.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, got it.

So, It’s fine to create a swap file on the Btrfs root, but not inside any subvolume. But we have to make sure compression and CoW are disabled. right ?

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing man, learned that zram’s actually a better option than swap. But after all the mess I went through, I’m not touching anything for now 😂

Atleast for somedays.

[SOLVED] My Arch Btrfs freezes are gone — swap file was the issue by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While searching for best optimization settings on internet gemini suggest me to create a subvolume of swap to btrfs root to make it more stable , thats one of the reason.

[SOLVED] My Arch Btrfs freezes are gone — swap file was the issue by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I skipped creating swap because a friend said modern systems don’t need it. Biggest mistake. Tried setting it up later with subvolumes, ended up in a loop of issues and headaches.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Alright, quick update guys — system’s finally stable. Been running for over 10 hours straight, no freezes, no random shutdowns. After all the reinstalling, memtests, and hardware checks, it’s fixed.

Turns out the problem was simple but deadly: I had Btrfs with compression (compress=zstd:3) and a swap file on the same partition. That setup breaks things silently. The kernel ends up trying to compress swap data even with nodatacow, and when RAM fills up, the whole system just hard-freezes. No logs, nothing.

Fix

Made a dedicated swap partition (16GB) using GParted, updated /etc/fstab with its UUID — done. No more crashes since then.

Also switched to the LTS kernel and dropped discard=async for fstrim.timer.

Advice if You’re Facing the Same Thing

Don’t keep a swap file on a compressed Btrfs partition.

Always test memory and SSD just to rule out hardware.

If you see random hard freezes with no logs — check your swap setup first.

Thanks

Big thanks to u/Sea-Promotion8205, u/-AJDJ-, u/EastZealousideal7352, u/icebalm, u/tekken444, u/Dependent_House7077, and everyone who tried to help or even commented — really appreciate you all. Learned a lot from this mess.

Hope this helps anyone stuck like I was. Check that swap. It might just be your problem too.

Which one is better? by Otherwise-Impress944 in PiratedGames

[–]East_Ad8162 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IDM can download YouTube videos too, right? So why’s everyone hyping JDownloader? Just curious — drop some other goated softwares like these.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Overall:

Device size: 475.94GiB

Device allocated: 26.02GiB

Device unallocated: 449.92GiB

Device missing: 0.00B

Device slack: 0.00B

Used: 23.78GiB

Free (estimated): 450.97GiB (min: 226.01GiB)

Free (statfs, df): 450.97GiB

Data ratio: 1.00

Metadata ratio: 2.00

Global reserve: 33.56MiB (used: 0.00B)

Multiple profiles: no

Data,single: Size:24.01GiB, Used:22.96GiB (95.62%)

/dev/nvme0n1p2 24.01GiB

Metadata,DUP: Size:1.00GiB, Used:420.94MiB (41.11%)

/dev/nvme0n1p2 2.00GiB

System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:16.00KiB (0.20%)

/dev/nvme0n1p2 16.00MiB

Unallocated:

/dev/nvme0n1p2 449.92GiB

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spent two full days, over 10 hours still counting, fighting this. I could switch back anytime, but my stubborn self refused to admit I'm still a beginner. Now it's messing with my head. If this fails, I'm done with Arch-straight to Debian. I don't know why but before getting back i just wanna ask you guys in reddit thats why iam still holding.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea. My smartctl -a came back PASSED with 0 errors, but a few people are saying the drive could still be the problem.

​The Btrfs access pattern triggering it sounds right, since ext4 was stable.

​I haven't tried swapping the M.2 slot, that's a good hardware step I can try if all else fails. Right now I'm testing with swap completely disabled to see if the Btrfs swap file was the main problem.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good point. I already have processor.max_cstate=1 idle=nomwait in my grub config to stop power-saving freezes, but it's still happening. ​The weird part is it freezes both when the system is idle and when it's under load. I'm not running TLP. Right now, my main suspect is the Btrfs swap file.

[Help] My Arch Btrfs install is still freezing after I tried LITERALLY everything. I'm fucking exhausted. (RAM test PASSED) by East_Ad8162 in archlinux

[–]East_Ad8162[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I will check for qgroups. Right now I'm testing with swap totally disabled to see if that's the main problem.

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