Apps are crashing much too often!!

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Apps are crashing much too often!!

asked 2015-12-11 20:13:41 +0200

Christoph7K
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I thought one of the advantages of SFOS is multitasking, but when I open for example the native music player and the Android App Forge of Empires after not even a minute the music player app crashes. Sometimes I only open Forge of Empires and the app crashes. Then I restart the Android runtime and I can use the Android app normally, but after a little time the problem starts again. Multitasking is even impossible for me. I'm really disappointed of SailfishOS after using it for half a year. I wanted to use a different OS than iOS or Android (and I used always a different OS like maemo or BBOS 10 which are very nice OS, especially BBOS 10), but if it doesn't work than I would rather take Android instead of SFOS. And please don't say that I should change my phone if I'm disappointed because I don't want to change my phone so fast.

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There are ways to tweak the OOM-Killer to not so agressively kill memory hungry processes. Please use the search for OOM to see the many different ways on how to tweak it.

In general comparing SailfishOS with BBOS 10 is nor so fair as all BB10 devices have 2 GB RAM (with exception of the Z3 which was only sold in India as far as I know and still has 1.5 GB RAM) which is double the size of what Jolla offers.

leszek ( 2015-12-11 20:20:39 +0200 )edit

Ok. Then why I never have that kind of issue on my N9? On Jolla media app crashes when I browse the web and chat at the same time. Is that some kind of bug in SFOS?

saleki ( 2015-12-11 22:11:27 +0200 )edit

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Meego on the N9 has OOM Killer almost completely disabled (basically in passive mode so only if the kernel has to less memory available it will kill)

leszek ( 2015-12-11 22:13:11 +0200 )edit

did disable oom as described in 'how to disable oom killer' seems to work just two lines in terminal

pawel ( 2015-12-11 22:26:16 +0200 )edit

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To be exact, apps are not crashing (terminating by themselves) but being closed by the OS because of low memory. But that's just terms, the problem is real.

ssahla ( 2015-12-11 22:33:32 +0200 )edit

There are ways to tweak the OOM-Killer to not so agressively kill memory hungry processes. Please use the search for OOM to see the many different ways on how to tweak it.
In general comparing SailfishOS with BBOS 10 is nor so fair as all BB10 devices have 2 GB RAM (with exception of the Z3 which was only sold in India as far as I know and still has 1.5 GB RAM) which is double the size of what Jolla offers.
leszek ( 2015-12-11 20:20:39 +0200 )edit
Ok. Then why I never have that kind of issue on my N9? On Jolla media app crashes when I browse the web and chat at the same time. Is that some kind of bug in SFOS?
saleki ( 2015-12-11 22:11:27 +0200 )edit
Meego on the N9 has OOM Killer almost completely disabled (basically in passive mode so only if the kernel has to less memory available it will kill)
leszek ( 2015-12-11 22:13:11 +0200 )edit
did disable oom as described in 'how to disable oom killer' seems to work just two lines in terminal
pawel ( 2015-12-11 22:26:16 +0200 )edit
To be exact, apps are not crashing (terminating by themselves) but being closed by the OS because of low memory. But that's just terms, the problem is real.
ssahla ( 2015-12-11 22:33:32 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-12-11 22:47:41 +0200

pawel

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updated 2015-12-12 11:42:15 +0200

https://together.jolla.com/question/98797/how-to-disable-lowmemorykiller/

follow the solution in accepted answer

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Your link points to this question. :)

ssahla ( 2015-12-11 22:50:07 +0200 )edit

You could also first accept your own answer and then add your solution. ;)

lakutalo ( 2015-12-12 03:28:12 +0200 )edit

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sorry, that s the copy paste feature of jolla browser ;-)

fixed now if you just do echo '1'> blabla the setting will be reset after restart

pawel ( 2015-12-12 11:41:06 +0200 )edit

I don't know what to do with that answer. When I write the first line in the terminal it says: No permission. Sorry, but I'm no pro

Christoph7K ( 2015-12-12 15:45:22 +0200 )edit

You tried something like this

devel-su
echo '9999' > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj
echo '1' > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

in the console?

avhakola ( 2015-12-12 16:53:39 +0200 )edit

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