Hi Christopher, I've done further tests. Regarding your question, effectively after reproducing the problem with the previous kernel I've got a crash file from google-chrome. Even with the default values mentioned in #3 What I've observed is: - when having swap off the problem arrives faster when reaching the memory limit, the system just restart at logon screen (but it doesn't seem a complete reset because I didn't get the GRUB screen (more like the lightdm process restart?) - when having swap on the problem arrives when consuming almost all the swap memory, but same issue: mouse and keyboard start not to respond and then finally restart. - with the new kernel 3.14 the restart does not arrive but the system become equally freeze near the limit of memory and eventually require a hard reset or have to wait to be able to kill some of the process (that could take too long). But in this case google-chrome started to give unresponsive windows messages and kill their own processes himself, giving proper errors.
The steps I use to reproduce the problem are: - execute $ sudo memtester 2G - open almost 30 bookmarks of web pages as tabs of google-chrome - eventually execute $ sudo memtester 1G (when using swap to reach the limit again) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1504914 Title: System freeze/restart on high memory usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1504914/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
