Does it actually work?
Does it actually work?
Posted Apr 24, 2025 16:08 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Does it actually work? by khim
Parent article: Three ways to rework the swap subsystem
Speaking of containers and browsers.... I used to run a system with a slow disk - plenty of RAM, but disk was slow enough that it was easy to trigger Linux's suicidal, "off a cliff edge", swap behaviour if I ignored the initial signs of slow-down from the bloated browser. I took to running the browser using 'systemd-run --user --slice -p MemoryMax=xG <browser>'. So it runs in a cgroup that will limit its memory use, and systemd-status --user can show you exactly how much RAM the entire group of browser processes is using, and it's also to kill the entire group - without needing to first run ps to find the process.
