Description of problem: When opening a lot of tabs in Firefox, the system ram usage goes up as expected, but when available ram gets to 0, the system freezes up, and sometimes doesn't unfreeze Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 27 Fedora 28 Opensuse leap 15 Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 18.04 Manjaro Linux latest version How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up your system 2.Open up a site that requires a lot of ram (ex) google docs 3.Duplicate the tab a bunch of tabs 4.Wait till your ram is maxed out 5. System becomes slow, unresponsive, or completely frozen so much sometimes that the only way get it working again is to hold down the power button Actual results: System freezes, or is slow at high ram usage Swap space is barely used CPU load average spikes to sometimes 1000% Expected results: CPU load average stays constant Swap is used a lot more OOM killer kills more processes to help free ram System does not freeze and I can continue working Additional info: Tested Intel E6400 with 3072mB 533MHz ddr2 ram with3gb swap . Gnome 3.26 and 3.28 kernel 4.12 and 4.15 on ubuntu 18.04, Opensuse leap 15 and fedora 28 Intel i5-520M with 4096MB ram. 4gb swap. Gnome 3.28 running Manjaro Linux Many users have reported this issue since 2007. Fix has not yet been provided other than to edit the /etc/sysctl conf file
After the latest updates from DNF Update, this issue no longer exists. Closed
Never mind, the issue still exists.
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE ************** We apologize for the inconvenience. There are a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 28 kernel bugs. Fedora 28 has now been rebased to 4.17.7-200.fc28. Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel. If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
This does not occur anymore. Swap is a lot better now. I can’t get the system to freeze anymore.