On 04/16/2020 05:02 AM, Adam Majer wrote:
I've had everything freeze on my laptop because of memory constraints. No keyboard, or mouse, but the webcam and the audio device kept on humming along. So, what's going on?
The answer could be to use cgroups to prioritize desktop components and keep free pages available while other (memory hungry) tasks get reduced priority and get impacted by swap. But someone has to test this.
- Adam
PS. I'm not an expert here, just my thoughts on the subject as an interested party.
Nor I, but thank you, that adds to the body of knowledge and areas to investigate. It's more of a curiosity of why. I think Andrei has put his finger on in when programs have to start scanning though the page lists while reclaiming memory. I guess this time since I was writing to more than 1/2 the available RAM and have a full desktop running -- when it hit the swap condition, it just lasted much, much longer than I have ever seen before (ever -- going back to 1999? 2000?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org