On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 12:15:20PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Let's keep this desktop-focused, since the proposal does not affect Server > edition. > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 12:48 pm, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As for the desktop case the running web browers in a cgroup to keep them > > in check would solve most real world problems - other common desktop > > apps don't use enough memory to cause such issues (unless your system is > > really memory constrained but then the "buy more memory" solution is the > > better fix). > > The last time I saw my desktop hang due to a web browser using too much > memory was 2015. just FTR, this happens relatively frequently for me. Some websites seem to cause Firefox to swap itself into nirvana. Sometimes within a short time but sometimes it takes longer. I've come back from a lunch break a few times to a desktop swapping itself to death. Not yet fully identified but it does happen. Cheers, Peter > > The freezes I've encountered in the past five years were all related to > software development: > > * When compiling large software projects, it's possible to run out of RAM > either when building lots of files in parallel, or when linking > * GNOME Builder runs ctags, and ctags likes to use dozens of GB of RAM to > index large software projects. I think it sometimes gets into a loop where > it just allocates more and more RAM until the desktop dies > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
