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(a)gmail.com> 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
>
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