Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

I don't know anymore why it is a question why you use FreeBSD.

Systemd and Ubuntu are really more than the sum of their parts. In a bad way.

Out-of-memory kill. OK.

Don't think that `dmesg` has any information about the OOM situation, or even that one happened in the first place. Mind you, `dmesg` is clogged up with all kinds of garbage from systemd that doesn't belong there, starting with lots of error messages from the snap mechanism. I have no snaps installed. And the installation is less than 24 hours old, why is snap already spewing error messages?

/var/log/syslog has the OOM info. It also tells you that systemd has Taken Over(tm) the duties of picking the processes to kill. Note plural, it killed a whole group, although only one of them was big. And worst of all, it killed the (small) tmux process around the failed build. So I can't see how far it made it and which part blew up memory. I don't recall the old in-kernel OOM killer being this stupid.
 
I get tons of OOM process killed errors when I try to compile Firefox or Chromium on a system with 8 GB of RAM. But recently, that did improve, and now even LLVM compiles with 8 GB of RAM...
 
astyle said:
I get tons of OOM process killed errors when I try to compile Firefox or Chromium on a system with 8 GB of RAM. But recently, that did improve, and now even LLVM compiles with 8 GB of RAM...
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Try turning on LLVM's debug build :)

How many cores/hardwarethreads do you have?
 
Update on my current status with FreeBSD...

As I mentioned previously, I tried to get a desktop working on each new release of FreeBSD for about 10 years. I always ran into some weird error that I didn't have enough FreeBSD knowledge to fix. But two things happened: the installation got easier, and I discovered the FreeBSD Forums. That helped immensely, especially with the weird quirks that some of the small computers have. The other day I installed FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE with lightdm and xfce on a Kamrui fanless computer. It took about an hour or two this time. When I was done, I reinstalled FreeBSD without xorg, lightdm, and xfce, because I really don't need a desktop on this machine. (The Kamrui computer does not like it if you switch the monitor to another input, and will not talk to you when you switch back, so unless I want another monitor on my desk, I can't use it that way. So now I just ssh into it, and everything is good.)
 
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I've started with FreeBSD 3.x long ago.

As a freelancer switched completely FreeBSD on my Server, WiFI-Access-Point, Firewall, and Workstation about 12 Years ago. I had no trouble working as Freelancer in the Content-Creating-Business with FreeBSD.

My latest Project are running Windows10 and 11 on bhyve and Jailing Services and Programs in Bastille jails.

I run a podcast for more than 10 years now, and since 3 years I run a small Streaming Radio-Show once a month for my family and friends.

So, I can say FreeBSD is the most versatile OS I have ever used. I'm happy using it for years, now.
 
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