Created attachment 893775 [details] Patch to fix the problem Description of problem: irqbalance has a memory leak on machines without a PCI bus (e.g. many ARM boards). There is a fix upstreams. See https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/commit/699deffdd881bf4759f3fcc4d6ee3e018e4c266e The result is dramatic on ARM: irqbalance eats up memory until the lowmemorykiller of android kills some processes. lowmemorykiller is part of ARM kernel of fedora. After killing irqbalance it kills "named" which results in a non functional system. Please find attached a patch to update fedora's irqbalance package to apply the upstream patch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): irqbalance-1.0.7-1.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: always if you have no PCI bus. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot on arm 2. turn on irqbalance 3. wait for low memory killer to kill around. Actual results: named and other important system daemons get killed Expected results: System running stable. Additional info:
Thanks for your report. This serious issue was fixed in build irqbalance-1.0.7-5.fc21 right now.