From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl0-f70.google.com (mail-pl0-f70.google.com [209.85.160.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8FB6B0007 for ; Thu, 24 May 2018 03:23:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pl0-f70.google.com with SMTP id bd7-v6so482549plb.20 for ; Thu, 24 May 2018 00:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8-v6si19807564plk.0.2018.05.24.00.23.28 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 24 May 2018 00:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Bug 199763] System is unresponsive, or completely frozen on high memory usage References: <20180522144158.c344458466ca9d2a450197f2@linux-foundation.org> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <002272a7-e8d4-1247-7ee3-5f2de9428d95@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 09:23:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180522144158.c344458466ca9d2a450197f2@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org On 05/22/2018 11:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018 23:30:03 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199763 >> > > And https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196729 > > Basically, we suck. And have done for 11 years. Yep, my laptop has just 8GB RAM and recently I've got used to running alt-sysrq-f at least once a day. Usually the culprit/victim is a Firefox tab with the blue website. I'm afraid upgrading to more RAM will be easier than fixing this, even with the corporate IT processes :/ Or maybe the psi work from the people running said website will help?