On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700
Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan
> > <jonr...@pacbell.net> wrote:  
> > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in
> > > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the
> > > console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts
> > > to restore files being worked on (but it failed to restore about 2
> > > hours' worth of work).  
> > 
> > Guessing  - OOMD is killing things to free up RAM?  
> 
> Certainly correct. In future I'll have to take corrective action --
> maybe buy more RAM.  From the system log:

I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, and when
something starts using too much memory, it starts using that swap and I
notice the slowdown in the system.  Then I can do something about it.

Might or might not work for your use case.
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