Hi, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Certain workloads, such as building webkitGTK from source, results in > heavy swap usage eventually leading to the system becoming totally > unresponsive. Look into switching from disk based swap, to swap on a > ZRAM device. It sounds like the same issue that has been in the news recently: - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Does-Bad-Low-RAM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20620545 Older sources with more information: - https://lwn.net/Articles/759658/ - https://superuser.com/questions/1115983/prevent-system-freeze-unresponsiveness-due-to-swapping-run-away-memory-usage (I learned about this bug the hard way; my machine experienced this bug in the middle of a public presentation a few years ago.) Regards, Omair -- PGP Key: B157A9F0 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = 9DB5 2F0B FD3E C239 E108 E7BD DF99 7AF8 B157 A9F0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
