[14:38] <tomreyn> OvenWerks: to your original question: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/memory-overcommitment-oom-killer
[14:39] <tomreyn> also https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand016.html for background info (but i'm not sure this still applies 100%)
[22:59] <OvenWerks> Eickmeyer: thanks. It has only happened a few times so far. It is anoying that it kills everything open on the desktop. This laptops primary mission (well one of them) is to run waydroid. I don't remember if the waydroid I have was installed with apt or not.... I thinkl yes but from a ppa. anyway, it was troublesome to set up so I am not enthused about up grading before the next lts. There are 
[22:59] <OvenWerks> also parts of this laptop that need a more current kernel than 22.04 so that the touchscreen/touchpad work.
[23:00] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: Also see the part from tomreyn above. I'm not sure if it addresses systemd-oomd which, I'm fairly certain, is active as well.
[23:01] <Eickmeyer> TBH, I haven't experienced your bug or mine on 23.10.
[23:04] <OvenWerks> tomreyn: Thank you. It used to be that processes that hadn't woke up for a while got killed sooner too. I will remember the no overcommit option along with swapoff for recording. Any of the recording sessions I have done don't need too much memeory anyway.
[23:07] <OvenWerks> Eickmeyer: yeah I saw that I was typing already ;)  I think I have only lost my session twice.
[23:07] <tomreyn> Eickmeyer: oh good point, i totally neglected systemd-oomd - i haven't read up on how it works, yet, but *hopefully* it doesn't override the kernel configuration
[23:08] <tomreyn> OvenWerks: ^
[23:08] <Eickmeyer> tomreyn: Sadly, aiui, it does. 😖
[23:09]  * Eickmeyer runs, at minimum, 16 GB these days.
[23:10]  * tomreyn mumbles uninterpretable words into his non-existent beard.
[23:10]  * OvenWerks can run a session on 8gb or less mostly
[23:11] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: All bets are off when you introduce a web browser into that, such as Firefox.
[23:11] <OvenWerks> I was talking recording session
[23:12] <Eickmeyer> Yeah, I knew what you meant. ;)
[23:12] <OvenWerks> Withh FF I need swap
[23:12] <OvenWerks> (+16gb)
[23:12] <Eickmeyer> . /swapon, /swapoff, the swapper. 😂
[23:14]  * Eickmeyer makes a mental note to add a swap toggle to Ubuntu Studio Audio Config
[23:20] <OvenWerks> cron is more useful