Bug 23099

Summary:	Memory cgroups not supported in desktop kernel
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dag Nygren <dag>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel-desktop-4.14.40-1.mga6-1-1.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dag Nygren 2018-05-30 13:13:49 CEST

Description of problem:
Rhe limit of memory comsunption by cgroups is not turned on in the desktop kernel

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All desktop kernels

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.zgrep CONFIG:MEMCG /proc/config.gz
2.Note that the parameter is not set
3.

With the rogue browsers out there chewing up all your memory it gets increasingly important to be able to restrict the memory use of a process to something sane. At the moment you will have to use there server kernels and they have a lot of other parameters set that are not good for a desktop and makes it more sluggish than it has to be. Please turn this on in a standard desktop kernel!

Comment 1 Dag Nygren 2018-05-30 13:14:58 CEST

And sorry. The parameter is CONFIG_MEMCG.

Marja Van Waes 2018-05-31 19:17:04 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 17:20:37 CEST

Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

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Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien