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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • I forced a shutdown of my Linux server by holding down the power button last night after it had been thrashing the harddisk for I don’t know how long.

    Wouldn’t respond to SSH so I just gave up, guess I could have tried to plug in a keyboard and use some magic keys.

    Maybe I should just remove the swapfile and let it kill something before it gets to that state. Or is that what swappiness setting is supposed to prevent? Only swap out stuff that is not actively used? In any case defaults don’t seem to work very well for me.

    Guess I’ll have to go boot it again today and try to find out what went wrong from the logs.