On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:49:18PM -0700, David Walker wrote:
A while ago, I also was suffering from serious "unresponsiveness" when opening moderately-large Google Spreadsheets. After reading an earlier version of https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/tuning/html/book-tuning/cha-tuni... https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/tuning/html/book-tuning/cha-tuni..., I found that setting:
sysctl vm/watermark_scale_factor=1000 Thanks for the tip.
Might be worth looking into.
The other thing is that some web pages may leak memory, and some web pages are just so huge that they cause OOM or stall the system (huge text files displayed in the browser and NASA photos with excessive resolution come to mind).
Michal Yes, of course, it's still possible to run out of memory+swap completely. Setting the watermark_scale_factor improves the system's ability to handle large requests for memory that don't exceed that
On 7/12/21 6:11 AM, Michal Suchánek wrote: ultimate limit. You no longer get those long minute or longer episodes of system thrashing. Frankly, I think it should be the default, at least for desktop/laptop systems, as the only downside is a small amount of CPU overhead.