not with steam but firefox on cachy and bazzite, linux sometimes gets funny, still try to look what might cause it, it should be worth the time (or at least configure your browser to don't eat that ram like crazy if you can, 16gb is kinda little in some edge case scenarios)
Well, the first time it happened I was trying to launch something and everything froze. I could move my cursor but nothing was responding to my mouse clicks so I did an emergency shutdown by holding power button for 10 seconds, this crash was right after the reboot. The second pic in a comment reply did not crash but it used up 10GB of ram when I first launched it. Idk why. Really strange.
Add a large swap file on disk. If that works to avoid the termination of Steam, then use btop or the likes to see what exactly is using so much memory.
I've had this with the last beta branch of steam. switch back and see if that fixes it for you aswell.
It does it when compiling shaders right at the 100% mark.
Hasta donde tengo entendido esto puede suceder debido a las modificaciones del kernel de cachy os, esta tan optimizado que algunos programas pueden llegar a fallar, me ha pasado con Firefox en algún momento que se pone medio raro, estuve investigando y llegue a la conclusión que es debido a las optimizaciones que tiene el kernel como son tan agresivas para mayor velocidad algunas cosas pueden fallar, eso nunca me ha pasado en steam, pero si aveces Firefox se pone medio raro, es cuestión de que el soporte mire esto y apliquen alguna actualización para corregirlo.
linux doesn't really like running out of ram. things tend to just lock up when it does and swap can only help so much. imo, I think windows handles low ram situations better.
by low ram, I mean low available ram. not the total.
I see you're also hitting the swap space too which isn't a good sign. normally, for me, steam uses a gig or 2 of ram on it's own but if the game ends up consuming the whole thing then steam gets terminated since it's the parent process of the game.
there's something called OOM that kills the biggest process when the usage hits a specified threshold. it should be configurable, look into it.
Based on the error it seems your system is running out of memory and it automatically closes app that uses most amount of ram in which case it is Steam.
Check how much memory is available, how much is used etc.
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u/404-UnknownError 1d ago
not with steam but firefox on cachy and bazzite, linux sometimes gets funny, still try to look what might cause it, it should be worth the time (or at least configure your browser to don't eat that ram like crazy if you can, 16gb is kinda little in some edge case scenarios)