[GNC] Peculiar Chrome Gnucash interaction

[dewaj]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:23:30 -0500
Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com> 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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dj