Hello,
First post to this list, so go easy on me!
Every few days, my desktop runs out of RAM, and this usually happens while web
browsing. I wait for as much as an hour and a half, but just see the screen as
frozen the way it was at the time of the hang. 8 GB RAM is installed in it, and
it's running Debian 10. My experience with other Linux distributions has been
that the out-of-memory killer works as expected, but I set
vm.oom_kill_allocating_task = 1 in sysctl to avoid it - yes, I also save the
setting persistently in a file /etc/sysctl.d/60-oom-killer.conf. I'm back to
using the default 0 setting. I can reproduce the problem using:
stress -m 4 --vm-bytes 1000M
My persistent journald logging shows me no evidence of memory pressure being
registered by the kernel or the oom-killer being involved leading up to the
hang, so I'm not sure what to do next.
Pariksheet
