So recently I just come across Earlyoom and it has completely resolved my desktop crashing and better handles my memory, I was wondering if there is any other software that I’m missing that could potentially improve my systems resource handling?
Distro = Debian 12, KDE Plasma 5
If Earlyoom helped you with OS stability, then you have memory problems. That means you’re running more in memory processes than your system memory can handle before the kernel tries to save itself by killing procs using a lot of memory.
Get more memory if possible, enable a larger swap partition, or run fewer things.
You know, sometimes memory leaks happen
This person is not discussing a one-off memory leak issue. Seeing a memory leak means just stop using that program or go to a revision that doesn’t have that issue. People don’t just leave leaking apps out there for consumption.
Ha! Welcome to corporate, where vendors sell you software and say that the hardware has to have 128GB of ram and when you poke around a bit you discover a single JVM with constantly growing memory usage with a script that restarts it every time it runs out of resources.
AND a log file that describes - in typical Java excruciating detail - the precise lines in each module where the devs allocated resources but didn’t free them. About 40 times a second.
That isn’t consumer open source software. Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen something with a massive leak bad enough to cripple userspace and cause OOMKill situations. You’re shoehorning a potential issue into a non-existent scenario in the context of this conversation.