Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed to restore about 2 hours' worth of work).

Guessing  - OOMD is killing things to free up RAM?

Certainly correct. In future I'll have to take corrective action -- maybe buy more RAM.  From the system log:

Apr 10 13:35:44 amito systemd-oomd[948]: Killed /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-libreoffice\x2dcalc-d5d271b128784076915db377a70340bc.scope due
to memory pressure for /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service being 59.60% > 50.00% for > 20s with reclaim activity
Apr 10 13:35:44 amito systemd[1440]: app-libreoffice\x2dcalc-d5d271b128784076915db377a70340bc.scope: systemd-oomd killed 5 process(es) in this unit.
Apr 10 13:35:44 amito systemd[1440]: app-libreoffice\x2dcalc-d5d271b128784076915db377a70340bc.scope: Consumed 4min 26.480s CPU time.
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]: Considered 113 cgroups for killing, top candidates were:
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:         Path: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-mozilla\x2dthunderbird-c2bba51b2b8346e1bbe7647080a15d7b.
scope
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Memory Pressure Limit: 0.00%
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Pressure: Avg10: 0.45 Avg60: 2.44 Avg300: 1.02 Total: 1min 35s
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Current Memory Usage: 163.0M
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Memory Min: 0B
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Memory Low: 0B
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Pgscan: 577674
Apr 10 13:35:59 amito systemd-oomd[948]:                 Last Pgscan: 577354

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Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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