On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:49 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If I understand the situation correctly (which I may not} in my
> system
> this happens: All real and virtual memory is allocated (The system
> has
> 16 Gb RAM + 32 Gb Swap.), but more memory is needed, at which point
> oomd
> starts killing processes. The system often becomes quite slow, with a
> lot of disk activity, before processes start to die.
> 
> Cures might be more RAM, more swap, or cutting the system load. More
> swap is probably a bad idea, since the system already appears to be
> running slow on account of a lot of swapping.

You might try monitoring usage via oomctl to see what is actually
happening.

poc
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