On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 1:16:34 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 8/12/20 2:27 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > > Hi! > > I 've just had a problem using EarlyOOM + ZRAM. I haven't a disk-based > > swap partition. > > I was using mainly Zoom (desktop app) + Firefox + VirtualBox (Debian > > with 4GB of RAM), and EarlyOOM killed Zoom in the middle of a call :( > > > This is weird---your swap was 100% full, and ram almost full, and yet > killing 4GB VirtualBox didn't seem to free up memory. I suspect some > sort of measurement or reporting error---if these numbers were accurate, > EarlyOOM did have a reason to panic and kill zoom. BTW, zoom taking 721 > MiB is crazy. > > One possibility that comes to mind is that there's a process not > mentioned in the log (some system process???) that keeps allocating > memory as soon as it is freed by EarlyOOM, so killing the processes does > not result in increasing free memory (the first column). > > 399 of 15887 MiB ( 2.51%) SIGTERM "Web Content": badness 315, VmRSS 313 MiB > 397 of 15887 MiB ( 2.50%) SIGTERM "Web Content": badness 304, VmRSS 80 MiB > 379 of 15887 MiB ( 2.39%) SIGTERM "Web Content": badness 303, VmRSS 74 MiB > 335 of 15887 MiB ( 2.11%) SIGTERM "Web Content": badness 303, VmRSS 70 MiB > 315 of 15887 MiB ( 1.98%) SIGTERM "Web Content": badness 301, VmRSS 27 MiB > 288 of 15887 MiB ( 1.81%) SIGTERM "VirtualBoxVM":badness 212, VmRSS 4244 > MiB 337 of 15887 MiB ( 2.13%) SIGTERM "zoom": badness 36, VmRSS 721 > MiB > Note how the full log helpfully mentions the actual tresholds for > SIGTERM: mem 2.52%, swap 10%, Where does 2.52 come from, pray? Are you kidding? The system still had over a quarter of a gigabyte of free RAM. There's no reason to start killing off processes at that point. That's tons of free memory. To put that into perspective, that's enough free memory to store over 1000 average-length novels directly in memory. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ 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
