[GNC] Peculiar Chrome Gnucash interaction

[R Losey]

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 <alspachde at gmail.com> 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 <dewaj at garlic.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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