Linux: Crashes Ubuntu on freeze

Consti

Occasionally Discord freezes (had this when: Changing channel and almost at the same time changing server, after I closed an unresponsive reconnecting-window), this causes Ubuntu to crash (command line with blinking cursor, can't do anything) and Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart is the only option.

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  • schelcc

    Same exact problem except I’m getting a freeze but no crash. Seems to happen after rendering the client after not rendering it for a while.

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  • EssDub

    schelcc I have the same problem. Leaving Discord open for a while causes a system freeze on Ubuntu.

    I'm currently running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, GNOME 3.36.8, and Discord Stable 76207 (1f9fee7).

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  • schelcc

    EssDub I'm now on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with a similar problem. I think it's a mem leak issue, which we can't do anything (unless they open-sourced which would be sick), as a temp fix I have discord shutting down and rebooting on a crontab every few hours.

    It most likely has to do with the fact that Discord is built on chromium or whatever it's called and Chrome isn't known for its memory handling.

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  • Vala

    schelcc Can you share the crontab job for that? I'm using Linux Mint 20 and the problem still persist. It's exactly what you guys say, it's something about memory leaking. Sometimes it freeze so bad that I have to force to turn off the computer.

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  • schelcc

    Vala

    Note I have discord running through a script on my home /bin since I run it through flatpak

    0 */6 * * * /home/<your home>/bin/rebootDiscord.sh

    rebootDiscord.sh:
    #/bin/bash
    killall Discord
    /home/<your home>/bin/discord &
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