On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:34 AM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > It's also enough to store 1/8th of a significantly complex Electron process. It's *not enough*. Text is a terrible comparison when we're working with programs. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
