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You can use Alt+SysRq+f to manually call oom_kill.

• kam 9y ago
  On many distros, this is disabled by default because there's a chance that the OOM killer will hit something important, like the screen lock. For Ubuntu, enable it in /etc/sysctl.d/10-magic-sysrq.conf.
  • kuschku 9y ago
    If you’re using logind, this isn’t a problem – if the screenlocker dies, it will be restarted up to 3 times (without revealing screen content), and if it is killed yet once more, your screen just won’t unlock (you can then unlock via a tty by logging into that and using loginctl session-unlock). If the daemon responsible for this is killed, all your sessions will simply be killed. In no situation will your screen unlock due to a process being killed (in contrast to the pre-logind world, where, if the screenlocker dies, your screen is free for all, as there the locker is just a fullscreen window)