Besides, if the OOM Reaper (I knew it as OOM Killer) runs, there will be an entry in the system log files.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM Dale Alspach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > > dj > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
