Hey, hoping someone has the answer I’ve been looking for here. When playing games my ram slowly climbs to the point of freezing or closing due to memory shortage. I’ve never had this issue before but i’m only new to Linux. I have been looking over the forums and see swap memory and I’ve noticed that mine is disabled. Would that be my problem? If so how much do i put in swap. Thankyou.
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i9-10900KF (20) @ 5.30 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [Discrete]
Memory: 3.95 GiB / 15.49 GiB (26%)
Swap: Disabled
A recommendation is to create a SWAP partition 1.5 times the amount of RAM in case hibernation would be used, but you can get away with less than that, at least 4 GB if not hibernation is required.
Check the Arch wikis entry on Swap partitions. Alternatively, a swap file would also work and might be easier to achieve if you haven’t created a SWAP partition during install.
I’m guessing you’re using BTRFS, here is the info how to create a swap file via BTRFS.
First step is to find out what actually uses the RAM. Is it the game or another process? Which game are we talking about?
I have two examples at the moment but It’s all I’ve really played recently. Monster hunter wilds slowly climbs up during the initial shaders only making 3/4 of the way before closing due to memory shortage. The other being Warframe. It plays okay launches at 4gb but each new area I go keeps stacking on to the previously used RAM so 1st are 6gb 2nd 8gb and so on until crashing.
That sounds like the games have memory leaks. In that case I think swap doesn’t fix it.
Are there any software updates for those games?
And does the problem occur when not playing those games?
In general, at least a small swap is recommended by many anyway. Personally I haven’t included swap in years.
That was my first thought that they had leaks but looking at other people’s experiences on similar hardware seem to have much better outcomes so just has me thinking it’s something I haven’t done correctly or something I’ve not included
There are multiple ways to get those games running under linux, therefore it can’t hurt if you share the info about your preferred installation method.
As in games installation? If so it’s normal steam and both games are through steam all saved on a ext4 nvme. If that’s not what you meant then what information do you mean? Thank you
Have you created a swap partition or swap file in the meanwhile ?
And yes, it does make a difference if you’re using wine, lutris, bottles … or plain old steam.
Using steam already narrows it down as I would consider it stable under normal circumstances with a regular install.
For further assistance, it would be helpful if you provide inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog and some logs of journalctl, as mentioned in the forum log tool, ideally of a session after the issue occurred during gameplay.
I haven’t made the swap file yet as with it building up I can only see it filling that as well. I did test yesterday and had Warframe taking up to 13 gb by just going to different areas
I’m not home atm but I’ll intentionally fill it and send those logs in roughly 10hrs from now
Monster Hunter Wild is stated as 16 GB memory even at minimum system requirements on Steam. Who knows what’s going on with Warframe.
Just add at least 8 GB of swap and see how the system behaves.
Oh that has changed since release? That was originally lower and was working fine on windows but I do see now that has updated since I last managed to play ( three weeks after release )
Yeah I’ll add the swap in tonight and see what happens but I might make it crash beforehand so I can get those logs quicker in case it’s something else
running glances or htop or similar in a terminal while playing could also reveal what exactly is using the RAM.
I do not remember exactly.. but i think i saw others reportimg such issue with Nvidia GPU and drivers. In cas eyou are using non-open moduzles nvidia or nvidia-dkms package you couöd try open modules version. (nvidia-open or nvidia-open-dkms)
Could you show the output of:
nvidia-inst --test
?
So heres that link https://0x0.st/8Ru3.txt
As for this i didn’t know what was important so i just grabbed just before it crashed onwards, if more is need Ive saved the whole thing
Jul 29 17:29:44 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Service reached runtime time >
Jul 29 17:29:54 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Jul 29 17:29:56 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Consumed 2.810s CPU time, 2.8>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Starting Update the plocate database...
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-proc>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: error: SSL connect error
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: Finished uploading minidump>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: error: SSL connect error
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250729171558_>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Finished Rotate log files.
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Consumed 1.085s CPU time, 6.5M memory peak.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Finished Update the plocate database.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Consumed 3.488s CPU time, 244.2M memor>
Jul 29 17:30:13 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (152 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:30:15 sean-systemproductname kwin_wayland[1109]: kwin_wayland_drm: The main thread was hanging temporaril>
Jul 29 17:30:33 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (47 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after rec>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Warframe.x64.ex invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x440dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACC>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 4391 Comm: Warframe.x64.ex Tainted: G >
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO (WI-FI)>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: <TASK>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: dump_header+0x43/0x1aa
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: oom_kill_process.cold+0x8/0x8d
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: out_of_memory+0x210/0x500
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xa1b/0xe00
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x334/0x350
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: alloc_pages_mpol+0x86/0x170
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: alloc_pages_noprof+0x50/0x90
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: pte_alloc_one+0x19/0x60
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: __pte_alloc+0x2a/0xc0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: __get_locked_pte+0x52/0x70
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: insert_page+0x50/0xc0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: nvidia_mmap_helper+0x347/0x8f0 [nvidia db049398581ee975e0f3a3b527ee>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: __mmap_region+0x6cd/0xd40
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? timerqueue_del+0x2e/0x60
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: mmap_region+0x82/0xb0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: do_mmap+0x470/0x640
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x111/0x200
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x15c/0x200
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? syscall_trace_enter+0x8d/0x1f0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x810
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? cgroup_rstat_updated+0x65/0x250
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0xb1/0x1c0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x85/0xd0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x43/0x1c0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? set_pte_range+0xe2/0x200
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? next_uptodate_folio+0x89/0x2a0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? filemap_map_pages+0x4f4/0x670
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? do_fault+0x34c/0x5b0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? __handle_mm_fault+0x7de/0xfd0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? cgroup_rstat_updated+0x65/0x250
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? __count_memcg_events+0xb0/0x150
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x9b/0x4d0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? switch_fpu_return+0x4e/0xd0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: ? clear_bhb_loop+0x50/0xa0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: RIP: 0033:0x7fa420de648c
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Code: 1e fa 41 f7 c1 ff 0f 00 00 75 33 55 48 89 e5 41 54 41 89 cc 53>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: RSP: 002b:00000001000fe7f0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fa420de648c
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000004000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: RBP: 00000001000fe800 R08: 00000000000001c0 R09: 0000000000000000
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: R13: 0000000004000000 R14: 00005555770eeb80 R15: 0000000000000000
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: </TASK>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Mem-Info:
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: active_anon:813912 inactive_anon:2845220 isolated_anon:0
active_file:952 inactive_file:2286 isolated_file:0
unevictable:34 dirty:0 writeback:0
slab_reclaimable:32844 slab_unreclaimable:41812
mapped:124596 shmem:43389 pagetables:13852
sec_pagetables:0 bounce:0
kernel_misc_reclaimable:0
free:41171 free_pcp:659 free_cma:0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 active_anon:3255648kB inactive_anon:11380880kB active_file:38>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 DMA free:13308kB boost:0kB min:64kB low:80kB high:96kB reserv>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2132 15844 15844 15844
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:63124kB boost:0kB min:8676kB low:10844kB high:1301>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 13711 13711 13711
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 Normal free:88252kB boost:0kB min:58840kB low:73548kB high:88>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 0
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 DMA: 1*4kB (U) 1*8kB (U) 1*16kB (U) 1*32kB (U) 1*64kB (U) 1*1>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 12*4kB (M) 258*8kB (UM) 107*16kB (UME) 87*32kB (UME) 7>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 Normal: 1900*4kB (UM) 3112*8kB (UME) 1429*16kB (UME) 498*32kB>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages>
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 46970 total pagecache pages
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 0 pages in swap cache
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Free swap = 0kB
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Total swap = 0kB
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 4162699 pages RAM
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 102761 pages reserved
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 0 pages cma reserved
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: 0 pages hwpoisoned
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: Tasks state (memory values in pages):
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Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 709] 0 709 3783 457 240 217 0 >
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Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 722] 0 722 9100 1135 840 295 0 >
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Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 929] 0 929 35289 7383 7091 292 0 >
Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 930] 0 930 3976 634 356 278 0 >
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Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 1038] 0 1038 4226 492 440 52 0 >
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Jul 29 17:31:02 sean-systemproductname kernel: [ 1044] 0 1044 39130 853 560 293 0 >
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1000 4391 5970342 3299563 3243956 53948 1659 28434432 0 200 Warframe.x64.ex
1000 5460 67133384 899 640 259 0 249856 0 200 kioworker
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0 5502 3887 160 160 0 0 69632 0 0 systemd-userwor
0 5503 3887 200 200 0 0 73728 0 0 systemd-userwor
1000 5522 67187312 1197 954 243 0 262144 0 200 baloo_file_extr
nstraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/>
ry: Killed process 4391 (Warframe.x64.ex) total-vm:23881368kB, anon-rss:12975824kB, file-rss:215792kB, shmem-rss:66>
00.service: A process of this unit has been killed by the OOM killer.
steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: A process of this unit has been killed by the OOM killer.
]: steamwebhelper.sh[5534]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/seann/.local/s>
]: steamwebhelper.sh[5534]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/seann/.local/share/Steam/st>
76]: Process 2881 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 5/TRAP, processing...
Process Core Dump (PID 5576/UID 0).
78]: [🡕] Process 2881 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 2881:
#0 0x00007f3771f0dfbf n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x670dfbf)
#1 0x00007f3771f0da8b n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x670da8b)
#2 0x00007f3771f0e039 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x670e039)
#3 0x00007f37707e1857 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4fe1857)
#4 0x00007f37707deca6 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4fdeca6)
#5 0x00007f37707dd8fb n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4fdd8fb)
#6 0x00007f37707e93c8 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4fe93c8)
#7 0x00007f37707ea7c7 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4fea7c7)
#8 0x00007f3770604f91 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4e04f91)
#9 0x00007f37706693bb n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4e693bb)
#10 0x00007f37706695d1 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x4e695d1)
#11 0x00007f3771f5e06f n/a (/home/seann/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x675e06f)
#12 0x00007f3771f7ef86 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#13 0x00007f3771fe4621 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#14 0x00007f3771f7f721 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#15 0x00007f3771f3f6be n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#16 0x00007f3771f3ff6c n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#17 0x00007f376e11931c n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#18 0x0000558812dd878d n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#19 0x0000558812e2fae9 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#20 0x0000558812e384d8 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#21 0x00007f376a8376b5 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#22 0x00007f376a837769 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#23 0x0000558812c4302a n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
Stack trace of thread 2882:
#0 0x00007f376a8ade22 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#1 0x00007f376a8a264c n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#2 0x00007f376a8a4d1e n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#3 0x000055881312295f n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#4 0x0000558812e8620f n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#5 0x000055881312279a n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#6 0x0000558813120129 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#7 0x000055881312090b n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#8 0x0000558813125c08 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#9 0x00007f376a8a57eb n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
#10 0x00007f376a92920c n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.s>
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Jul 29 17:31:03 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-5576-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:31:03 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@1-5576-0.service: Consumed 510ms CPU time, 290.>
Jul 29 17:31:03 sean-systemproductname steamwebhelper[5549]: exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cach>
Jul 29 17:31:05 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729173105_82.dmp[5731]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20250729173105_82.dmp
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname pkexec[5734]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname pkexec[5734]: seann: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname pkexec[5742]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname pkexec[5742]: seann: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname gamemoded[3289]: ERROR: Could not inspect tasks for client [3288]! Skipping >
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname gamemoded[3289]: ERROR: Unable to find executable for PID 3288: No such file>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname kernel: CHTTPClientThre[3074]: segfault at e4c1d0f4 ip 00000000e4c1d0f4 sp 0>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xe4c1d0ca.
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname systemd-coredump[5747]: Process 2708 (steam) of user 1000 terminated abnorma>
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 5747/UID 0).
Jul 29 17:31:06 sean-systemproductname systemd-coredump[5748]: [🡕] Process 2708 (steam) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 3074:
#0 0x00000000e4c1d0f4 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#1 0x00000000f3c72d0e _ZN16SteamThreadTools7CThread22ThreadExceptionWrapperEPv (libtier0_s.so + 0x32d0e)
#2 0x00000000f3c705de n/a (libtier0_s.so + 0x305de)
#3 0x00000000f3c70ea0 CatchAndWriteMiniDumpExForVoidPtrFn (libtier0_s.so + 0x30ea0)
#4 0x00000000f3c70ee8 CatchAndWriteMiniDumpForVoidPtrFn (libtier0_s.so + 0x30ee8)
#5 0x00000000f3c75972 _ZN16SteamThreadTools7CThread10ThreadProcEPv (libtier0_s.so + 0x35972)
#6 0x00000000f7d097ab n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x927ab)
#7 0x00000000f7da45f8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12d5f8)
Stack trace of thread 2788:
#0 0x00000000f7fa4579 __kernel_vsyscall (linux-gate.so.1 + 0x579)
#1 0x00000000f7da1cb7 syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x12acb7)
#2 0x00000000f6afdf5b g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0>
#3 0x00000000f6a952d5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x202>
#4 0x00000000f6a953cd g_async_queue_pop_unlocked (l>
#5 0x00000000f6b075fb n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x925>
#6 0x00000000f6b06537 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x915>
#7 0x00000000f7d097ab n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x927ab)
#8 0x00000000f7da45f8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12d5f8)
Stack trace of thread 2708:
#0 0x00000000f7d1267b n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9b67b)
#1 0x00000000f7d05770 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e770)
#2 0x00000000f7d601ab __clock_nanosleep_time64 (lib>
#3 0x00000000f7d72aae __nanosleep (libc.so.6 + 0xfb>
#4 0x0000000056913781 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#5 0x00000000568d4b2e n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#6 0x00000000568cc996 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#7 0x00000000568cee2c n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#8 0x00000000568d0165 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
#9 0x00000000f7c99575 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x22575)
#10 0x00000000f7c9964e __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 >
#11 0x00000000568b7031 n/a (/home/seann/.local/share>
ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@2-5747-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@2-5747-0.service: Consumed 850ms CPU time, 463.>
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname kded6[1251]: Service ":1.88" unregistered
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729173105_82.dmp[5731]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-proc>
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729173105_82.dmp[5731]: response: CrashID=bp-118a2cc9-c159-4265->
Jul 29 17:31:07 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729173105_82.dmp[5731]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250729173105_>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: State 'st>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Killing p>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Failed wi>
Jul 29 17:32:32 sean-systemproductname systemd[1064]: app-steam@c986fffa4251445689bec1745dfc5601.service: Consumed >
Jul 29 17:34:35 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774475.0700] device (wlan0): set-hw-addr:>
Jul 29 17:23:41 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (201 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:24:11 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-coredump.
Jul 29 17:24:32 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (201 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:24:44 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 5399/UID 0).
Jul 29 17:25:16 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (199 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:25:55 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (208 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:26:40 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (197 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:27:17 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (210 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:27:56 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (211 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:28:05 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files...
Jul 29 17:28:30 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774110.1676] device (wlan0): set-hw-addr:>
Jul 29 17:28:37 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774116.6721] device (wlan0): supplicant i>
Jul 29 17:28:37 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774117.1831] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supp>
Jul 29 17:28:38 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (207 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:28:43 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774123.0528] device (wlan0): supplicant i>
Jul 29 17:28:43 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774123.4046] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supp>
Jul 29 17:28:46 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774126.5150] device (wlan0): supplicant i>
Jul 29 17:28:47 sean-systemproductname NetworkManager[1026]: <info> [1753774127.0393] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supp>
Jul 29 17:29:19 sean-systemproductname pipewire[1186]: spa.alsa: iec958:0p: (220 suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after re>
Jul 29 17:29:44 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Service reached runtime time >
Jul 29 17:29:54 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Jul 29 17:29:56 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-5399-0.service: Consumed 2.810s CPU time, 2.8>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Starting Update the plocate database...
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-proc>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: error: SSL connect error
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: Finished uploading minidump>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: error: SSL connect error
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname steam[2617]: assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname assert_20250729171558_78.dmp[5376]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250729171558_>
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Finished Rotate log files.
Jul 29 17:29:57 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Consumed 1.085s CPU time, 6.5M memory peak.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: Finished Update the plocate database.
Jul 29 17:30:02 sean-systemproductname systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Consumed 3.488s CPU time, 244.2M memor>
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Also if I’ve left something there i shouldn’t have just let me know. Thankyou for your help
here you go
❯ nvidia-inst --test
2025-07-29 18:08:43: Note: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] [10de:2206] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
2025-07-29 18:08:43: Info: nvidia-inst version 25.7.1-1
2025-07-29 18:08:43: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst --test
2025-07-29 18:08:43: Info: Selected mode: nvidia (Nvidia's open source)
2025-07-29 18:08:44: Info: Installing packages: nvidia-hook
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COMMANDS TO RUN:
pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed nvidia-hook
I think you should install nvidia-hook and then run eos-nvidia-fix.
But this might not help with the memory leak problem…
So I’ve now done that. Thankyou but yeah hasn’t fixed the issue.
So i ran Glances to see where it was all going and it is going to the game. I did try and save a photo of it but accidentally crashed the game. I was left with these two errors.
2025-07-29 19:38:34(+1000) (0:03:40) - CRITICAL on MEM (Min:70.1 Mean:82.9 Max:99.5): Warframe.x64.ex, steamwebhelper, firefox
2025-07-29 19:41:03(+1000) (0:01:13) - CRITICAL on CPU_TOTAL (Min:76.2 Mean:80.1 Max:93.2): Warframe.x64.ex, steam, kswapd0
The log above shows that the system is sitting at 14 GB memory when Warframe is killed, but 11 GB is inactive and could be swapped out.