Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> [17-02-19 14:04]: > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I > start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of > open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrome. > What can I do in that case. (Remote login doesn't work either) > > Can I have any additional program (like Chromium) die if there is not > enough memory. > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut >
Hi Helmut, I know that situation very well...additionally I have Blender open... But I think that the "freeze" of the system is not due to the memory amount but due to the heavy I/O while swapping. May be a tool like ionice could help you to keep the possibility of killing certain processes. Ionice the emerge itself and additinally nice it also. The emerge may take longer, but a frozen system is even slower... ;) HTH! Cheers Meino
