<SOLVED> Sudden appetite for RAM?

[pcwolf]

Greetings! Long time folder, now running v8.4.3 on Manjaro Linux

Just in the past month or so, I have had Chromium browser suddenly abend as the system RAM was totally consumed.
I do not recall this behaviour over the past years, just in the past few months. I have 16GiB installed, 15.5 usable.
When the browser closes, I can restart the systemd FAH-CLIENT which will drop the FAH alone RAM usage down to about 10-12G, which then allows normal operations for a few hours.
As the restarted FAH cores continue, the RAM usage increases slowly as the cores near completion.

Is there any kind of system message I could monitor to see what might be happening?

Thanks in advance
-Phil
Yorktown, Virginia

[calxalot]

Please update to beta 8.4.9.
It should have some memory leaks fixed.
https://foldingathome.org/beta/

[calxalot]

If that’s from AUR, you’ll need to lean on the maintainers for an update.

Or you can build the client from source and replace just fah-client.

[pcwolf]

Thank you very much for the advice, calxalot!

I have tip-toed around the edge of trying my hand at building from source for too long.
Your push is exactly what I need. Off I go to delve into the guts of Arch-like wizardry

-Phil
Yorktown, Virgnia

[pcwolf]

Well!

Downloaded the lastest Beta Bastet code and followed the ReadMe part about building the client.

A little sudo in /usr/bin to copy and rename files, and just like that, v8.4.10 folding with about a 50% reduction in RAM use to 6.48G

Now in my toolkit to try updated betas as released.

Thanks again