On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:08 PM, 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 > It sounds like you are running out of memory and OOM killer is being invoked. Is there a specific reason you don't have swap enabled?
