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On 02/19/2017 07:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I |
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> start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of |
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> open tabs. |
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> In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrome. |
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> What can I do in that case. (Remote login doesn't work either) |
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> Can I have any additional program (like Chromium) die if there is not |
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> enough memory. |
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Yes, just disable swap as that is what happens when you run out of swap. |
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You can configure the likelihood of a process being killed through |
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/proc/<pid>/oom_adj. If you disable it for all processes after boot (ie. |
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through a script) then only the "additional" programs can be killed but |
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that may any program that's using a lot of memory so it may not be a |
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good idea for a desktop. See |
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-dev/oom-killer-1911807.html |
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> Many thanks for a hint, |
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> Helmut |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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