This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

Totally agree. Have been there and done that quite a few times too.

Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.

Were there any errors during boot?

Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)

PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.

Load average of 400???

You could install systat (or similar) and use output from sar to watch for thresholds and reboot if exceeded.

The upside of doing this is you may also be able to narrow down what is going on, exactly, when this happens, since sar records stats for CPU, memory, disk etc. So you can go back after the fact and you might be able to see if it is just a CPU thing or more than that. (Unless the problem happens instantly rather than gradually increasing).

PS: rather than using cron, you could run a script as a daemon that runs sar at 1 sec intervals.

Another thought is some kind of external watchdog. Curl webpage on server, if delay too long power cycle with smart home outlet? Idk. Just throwing crazy ideas out there.

Did…did you sit on your cat?? Wtf am I seeing here?

Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I’m sure some folks do have issues, though. Shit happens. Is windows 11 shittier for install? I’ve never had the desire to try :)

I’ve also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.

Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That’s why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn’t available at the time)

Good to hear all that, and thanks! I will give it a whirl and see what happens. Best of luck on your project.

It is, yeah. Nobara has been great for the most part. Though it isn’t as polished as I’ve found Mint to be (without more contributors I don’t see how it could be). But really the only reason I switched was for GPU support that the 6.x kernel provided.

That was my concern with Nobara as well. That and the wonky patching process (on the command line), a footgun I used on myself recently. I’ve been on Fedora for a few months. Maybe it is time to give Garuda a go.

Much appreciated!

If love to copy your conky setup. That looks slick.

My guess is conky. I use it too but mine doesn’t look anywhere near as nice as OP’s does.

Good to know. Well I have 16G now that should give me plenty to spare.

I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.

Well, you’re not wrong. I was away from my desktop when I commented and forgot btop looked so fancy.

For now I still prefer htop because I can see at a glance the stuff I’m most interested in (mem & cpu and process sort).

I’ll have to play with some of the other suggestions in the post…

I also am starting to play around with cockpit a little more for remote monitoring.

Cute! Mine snuggles between my knees when I’m laying on the sofa.

If I was that memory- and cpu-constrained I would be using other tools such as memstat, iostat, and cpustat.

htop because pretty colors and graphs.

Or top because it’s like muscle memory now.

That said, a cat wrote this infographic and put turkey and shrimp in the top section 😅

🤣

Just for clarity, not trying to be a pedant:

Cats are obligate carnivores

Cats must eat meat to live. Like you said they can’t really process other stuff.