System is unresponsive, or completely frozen on high memory usage

Bug 199763 Andrew Morton 2 participants 2 messages May 22, 2018 – May 24, 2018 2 messages not in the archive Memory management

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Andrew Morton

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2018-05-22 21:42 UTC #2 lore raw

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Quoted 2 lines · On Mon, 21 May 2018 23:30:03 +0000 [email protected] wrote:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199763

And https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196729

Basically, we suck. And have done for 11 years.

Vlastimil Babka

2018-05-24 07:23 UTC #3 lore raw

Quoted 8 lines · Andrew Morton

Quoted 2 lines · On Mon, 21 May 2018 23:30:03 +0000 [email protected] wrote:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199763
And https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196729
Basically, we suck. And have done for 11 years.

Yep, my laptop has just 8GB RAM and recently I've got used to running alt-sysrq-f at least once a day. Usually the culprit/victim is a Firefox tab with the blue website.

I'm afraid upgrading to more RAM will be easier than fixing this, even with the corporate IT processes :/ Or maybe the psi work from the people running said website will help?