Hi,
Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com writes:
Certain workloads, such as building webkitGTK from source, results in heavy swap usage eventually leading to the system becoming totally unresponsive. Look into switching from disk based swap, to swap on a ZRAM device.
It sounds like the same issue that has been in the news recently:
- https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Does-Bad-Low-R... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20620545
Older sources with more information:
- https://lwn.net/Articles/759658/ - https://superuser.com/questions/1115983/prevent-system-freeze-unresponsivene...
(I learned about this bug the hard way; my machine experienced this bug in the middle of a public presentation a few years ago.)
Regards, Omair
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