On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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:I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, and when something starts using too much memory, it starts using that swap and I notice the slowdown in the system. Then I can do something about it.
If I understand the situation correctly (which I may not} in my system this happens: All real and virtual memory is allocated (The system has 16 Gb RAM + 32 Gb Swap.), but more memory is needed, at which point oomd starts killing processes. The system often becomes quite slow, with a lot of disk activity, before processes start to die.
Cures might be more RAM, more swap, or cutting the system load. More swap is probably a bad idea, since the system already appears to be running slow on account of a lot of swapping.
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Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Some people want something for nothing, however much it costs. -- David Ryshpan
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