Thanks for mentioning that, I did not know there was now a tool to take care of this job. The default for earlyoom won't fix that issue if you have enough swap space defined. it defaults to don't TERM until 50% of swap is left. My machine is swapping on SSD and the machine is mosly useless once it gets less than 1gbyte into swap. I have added an option on one of my machines that has seen issues often (only 10GB ram) to -s 95,95 so it will allow a little bit of swap before killing. I will refresh the web page I know will act up within a day or 2 and see if it kills it fast enough. On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:55 AM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2020-05-19 23:05, Roger Heflin wrote: > > Keep in mind if it does not "crash" and you have enough swap that the > > machine will just get so slow as to be useless. > > > > And that is exactly the type of problem earlyoom is trying to solve. > > Users should also be aware that, by default, earlyoom is called with > > Preferring to kill process names that match regex '^Web Content$' > > With "Web Content" being a firefox thing. Other web browsers are not immune to eating up > excessive memory due to number of tabs open and the content being served. So, if you're not > a firefox user and you'd rather earlyoom kill one of your tabs instead of picking some other > application you may be running you'd need to adjust the setting. > > You also may wish to add to the --avoid list. > > -- > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
