On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:49 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 > > Jonathan 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. You might try monitoring usage via oomctl to see what is actually happening. poc _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue