I’m running Fedora 37 on my laptop and for the first time this week, my VMs on my laptop started crashing for some reason. Upon further investigation, it seems that when I run more than one VM, all of the VMs will eventually get OOM killed by systemd-oomd, despite the fact that I had over 12GB of free RAM (as reported by ‘free -m’).
I searched around and found some information about how systemd-oomd works (I admit I didn’t really understand it) as well as how to change ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit in /etc/systemd/system/user@service.service.d/override.conf. However, even after a reboot, the memory limit was still 50% for my slice.
I eventually disabled systemd-oomd (systemctl mask systemd-oomd) and that resolved the issue, but I was hoping that someone could explain to me how to increase the MemoryPressureLimit for my cgroup on my workstation. I was not able to figure that part out. I appreciate the purpose of sytemd-oomd, but if I can’t tune it to keep it from OOM killing VMs when there is ample memory available, then I won’t have a choice but to leave it disabled.
Thanks!