Environment
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OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble)
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RAM: 16 GB (2×8 GB DDR5 4800 MHz)
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Swap: 4 GB
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GPU: NVIDIA (proprietary driver)
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Desktop: GNOME (Wayland/Xorg)
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Antigravity version:
1.14.2-1768287740(installed via apt) -
Install type: native Linux app (Electron-based)
Description
Antigravity crashes frequently on Linux due to the system OOM killer, despite sufficient available RAM (6–8 GB free at crash time).
The crash is always preceded by:
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Extremely large virtual memory reservations by Antigravity processes (VSZ ~1.4 TB)
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GPU-related errors from Chromium/Electron
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NVIDIA driver reporting GPU out-of-memory
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systemd / kernel killing the Antigravity process
This makes the application unusable for more than a few minutes.
Observed behavior
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Antigravity launches normally
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After several minutes of use (editing, AI interactions, background profiling):
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GPU process crashes
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Renderer and extension hosts fail
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system OOM killer terminates Antigravity
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App closes completely
Expected behavior
Antigravity should not be OOM-killed on a system with 16 GB RAM and low overall memory pressure.
Relevant Logs
Kernel OOM kill:
Out of memory: Killed process (antigravity)
total-vm: ~1480000000 kB
anon-rss: ~300MB–1GB
oom_score_adj: 300
NVIDIA driver error:
NVRM: nvCheckOkFailedNoLog: Out of memory [NV_ERR_NO_MEMORY]
Electron / Chromium GPU errors:
GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002
systemd:
app-gnome-antigravity.scope: Failed with result 'oom-kill'
Additional Observations
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Multiple Antigravity processes reserve ~1.4 TB of virtual memory (VSZ), which appears abnormal
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The issue is reproducible
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System memory is not actually exhausted at crash time