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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:02:02PM -0700, spiralofhope wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:24:56 -0400
> fsmithred via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > What I do when it starts to slow down is ctrl-alt-F2, log in and
> > start killing programs. Thunderbird is usually on that kill list,
> > because it takes a lot of ram, too. If I wait too long to do that, it
> > freezes. At some point, even sysrq keys won't work.
>
> I recalled a program which automatically kills tasks which are being
> hogs, which is an extreme and not-recommended workaround. I couldn't
> find it offhand, but I found other solutions out there which act like
> that. In theory, a monitoring script could be made for this, and even
> made smart enough prompt for action (with a timeout for automatic
> action).


Would that be the oom-killer?

>
>
> Also, would ulimit be helpful?
>
> https://ss64.com/bash/ulimit.html
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