On Thu 2020-01-09 12:56:33, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 07-01-20 21:44:12, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I updated my userspace to x86-64, and now chromium likes to eat all > > the memory and bring the system to standstill. > > > > Unfortunately, OOM killer does not react: > > > > I'm now running "ps aux", and it prints one line every 20 seconds or > > more. Do we agree that is "unusable" system? I attempted to do kill > > from other session. > > Does sysrq+f help? > > > Do we agree that OOM killer should have reacted way sooner? > > This is impossible to answer without knowing what was going on at the > time. Was the system threshing over page cache/swap? In other words, is > the system completely out of memory or refaulting the working set all > the time because it doesn't fit into memory? What statistics are best to collect? Would the memory lines from top do the trick? I normally have gkrellm running, but I found its results hard to interpret. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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