[gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

[Dale]

Howdy,

I've ran into this more than once here lately.  It's starting to get on
my nerves.  As some know, I reboot when power fails and generally not
before.  If I'm not sitting at my system, it's downloading stuff,
usually videos or something.  Plus I watch TV from it as well.  At this
point, something has a problem.  I don't know for sure what but have
suspects. 

Things I've done based on what I've noticed while sitting at the
system.  I noticed with the newer Firefox versions, the multi-process
ones, that it can hog up a TON of memory.  Sometimes I wonder if it is
trying to download the entire internet or something into memory.  One
Firefox profile can be eating up several GBs of memory even with few
active tabs.  To help with that, I changed the process count from 4 to
1.  That seemed to help with that a LOT.  It hasn't gotten to hungry
since.  Basically back to the way it was before the multi-process thingy.

The other day, after a upgrade, I noticed dolphin started triggering
something.  Dolphin starts to consume memory and then the X itself, the
actual command X, starts to eat up memory.  The only way I can get X
itself to release it is to logout, restart the GUI from a console and
then login again.  If I see it quick enough, I can close the Dolphin
window and restart it.  Got lucky a time or two.  I'm not sure but I use
the little preview thingy to check downloaded videos with.  I suspect
that may be the trigger.  I think F11 activates it.

I'm attaching the relevant part of my messages file.  Does anyone see
anything in there that gives a clue?  I see where X was a hog and that
is the process the kernel killed, which of course, killed pretty much
everything else. 

Thanks much. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  I have more memory on the way but this is still a issue that
needs fixing.  If it eats all I have now, it will just eat more of it
later if this is some sort of bug.