I have 16 GB installed. About 1.4 GB is free and a large amount of swap is
free.  There is no reason a process killer should execute.

Dale
Dale

On Wed, Jun 4, 2025, 5:00 PM dewaj <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:23:30 -0500
> Dale Alspach <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What happens:
> > Typically I have 3 Chrome windows open with many tabs.
> > Gnucash is running and I am entering a new transaction.
> > Chrome crashes with a core dump. (Nothing else is affected.)
> > The basic OS log files show nothing helpful.
> >
>
> This seems like insufficient memory to run both, and the OOM Reaper is
> killing chrome because gnucash needs more memory to handle what you are
> doing.
>
> Chrome may well be a memory hog, especially when there are
> add-ons installed. (I do not use Chrome or Chromium because of their
> security & privacy issues.)
>
> The OOM Reaper is a kernel process that kills idle processes and
> reclaims their memory space when a process allocates additional
> memory to itself and there is not enough available memory.
>
> 4GB of memory on a 64bit machine equals 512Mwords of memory space.
> That's not even enough to do little more than start Windows. Increase
> your RAM to not less than 8GB. Turn on swap using a swap partition or a
> swapfile. Find out how much memory Chrome and other processes allocate
> themselves. Disable or stop unneeded processes. systemd does start
> useless processes because someone else decided that you want them.
>
> YMMV, etc.
>
> Good luck.
>
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