On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 12:15:20PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> Let's keep this desktop-focused, since the proposal does not affect Server
> edition.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 12:48 pm, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As for the desktop case the running web browers in a cgroup to keep them
> > in check would solve most real world problems - other common desktop
> > apps don't use enough memory to cause such issues (unless your system is
> > really memory constrained but then the "buy more memory" solution is the
> > better fix).
> 
> The last time I saw my desktop hang due to a web browser using too much
> memory was 2015.

just FTR, this happens relatively frequently for me. Some websites seem to
cause Firefox to swap itself into nirvana. Sometimes within a short time
but sometimes it takes longer. I've come back from a lunch break a few times
to a desktop swapping itself to death.

Not yet fully identified but it does happen.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> The freezes I've encountered in the past five years were all related to
> software development:
> 
> * When compiling large software projects, it's possible to run out of RAM
> either when building lots of files in parallel, or when linking
> * GNOME Builder runs ctags, and ctags likes to use dozens of GB of RAM to
> index large software projects. I think it sometimes gets into a loop where
> it just allocates more and more RAM until the desktop dies
> 
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