[konsole] [Bug 480884] Konsole terminates when a program launched by it runs out of memory (oom-kill)

[Tomaz Canabrava]

i remember we had a merge request for this a while ago.


On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 09:16 Massimiliano L <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480884
>
> --- Comment #2 from Massimiliano L <m.lincetto at gmail.com> ---
> (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #1)
> > Unfortunately KDE software is not responsible for deciding which process
> to
> > kill during out of memory events. Usually it is either the kernel OOM
> > killer, and the systemd OOM killer, and we have no control over how these
> > behave. If you find the current OOM killer unsatisfactory, you could try
> > customizing those or using alternate OOM killers like
> > https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom.
>
> Thank you for the answer. But this occurs systematically and does not occur
> with GNOME Terminal. So there should be something in the design or
> behavior of
> Konsole that triggers the OOM killer to terminate it together with the
> child
> process. Any ideas on why this may be?
>
> If this is "not a bug" can we turn this into a wishlist item? I believe it
> can
> significantly impact the user experience in some cases, putting Konsole
> (and
> KDE software) behind competitors.
>
> It could be also interesting to understand whether this is distro-related.
> If
> people not using Fedora are not experiencing the same issue, I may file a
> bug
> report with Fedora as well.
>
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