Oom killer can trigger a crash which will cause a lot of io on the cpu stopping the call from being answered

[Dave Morley]

STEPS:
1. On a BQ device install the terminal and d-day tower defense
2. Open the terminal and run free -h
3. Open d-day and start the game playing
4. Flip back to the terminal and run free -h again
5. There should be about 21MB free
6. Put the phone to sleep
7. Now call the phone
8. As the dialer app is opened it looks like the oom killer kills the open apps which in turn triggers apport which then hog the cpu

EXPECT:
I expect to the able to answer the call with no issues

ACTUAL:
The phone can lock up completely making it impossible to answer the call, the call goes to answering machine and when the phone is able to be used you get the missed call notification.

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

I don't think unity8 has any role to play wrt apport launching.
also, apport shouldn't be launched for apps being killed for oom, only in cases where they crash.

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

and the fix coming for this bug 1494442 would address this issue i think

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

> apport shouldn't be launched for apps being killed for oom
It may happen though that apps crash when being killed if they're not properly coded?

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Agree with comment #2, will delete from the tracking project

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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