Maybe taskset the vm?
On August 27, 2015 6:08:14 PM GMT-03:00, Carlo Cabanilla <[email protected]> wrote: >I don't have swap enabled. It's usually a dev virtualbox vm I'm running >that goes berserk and I can't click on anything or even move my mouse >until >eventually I think something kills the vm process. > >I was looking into using the magic SysRq key to kill the offending >process >but it only can kill everything and it's kind of a pain when X dies. > >.Carlo > > >On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Aleksei <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Carlo Cabanilla <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Is there a good way of keeping awesome responsive even when certain >> > clients are using up all the cpu? Maybe something clever with >cgroups? >> >> Dear Carlo, usually Linux manages cpu usage quite well, preventing >> freezes by dynamically increasing priority for low cpu consuming >> processes (such as awesome wm). Which clients reduce responsiveness ? >> >> I suppose that responsiveness issues caused by some other reasons, >for >> example by swapping, or by using slow widgets in awesome. Have you >tried >> to disable all third party widgets in awesome ? >> > > > >-- > > >.Carlo >syntacticbayleaves.com
