Yes, the OOM killer activation is on its face evidence of an incident; comments on other threads saying “If your process ran out of RAM, you get to quit. Why of

Yes, the OOM killer activation is on its face evidence of an incident; comments on other threads saying “If your process ran out of RAM, you get to quit. Why offload it on some other random process? This is how your database process runs out of memory, and your web workers get killed (or vice versa).” The scenario depicts a capacity shortage regardless of what the system decides to do in response.