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The original was posted on /r/nixos by /u/khfans on 2024-03-23 12:01:06.

I like NixOS a lot, but I’ve had some issues recently, running on unstable with automatic updates (and automatic reboots) turned on.

1. Roughly a week ago, all three of my installs, one local, two cloud, became unresponsive. The physical one, when logged into, wouldn’t show a shell. The cloud installations would just hang when being SSHed into. Reboots fixed it.
2. A couple of days ago, one of my installations started showing 100% cpu usage from systemd, I believe after an update, and continued being bogged down until rebooted.

I might note that all three of these installations are quite simple. Only three or four services enabled, headless setups.

I’m curious if others have been having similar issues, and if such issues are generally avoided by sticking to the stable point releases. Having a situation where I can’t ssh into a machine until I hard restart it after an update has kind of scared me and has caused me to stop using NixOS on bare metal until I’m sure it can be reliable.