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That has not been my experience. I disable overcommit on my machines and it has been considerably nicer to have apps exit due to malloc failing than random proc
by dooglius 7y ago
That has not been my experience. I disable overcommit on my machines and it has been considerably nicer to have apps exit due to malloc failing than random processes getting OOM-killed.
- bscphil 7y agoMy experience with the oom-killer has been consistently terrible. Stuff like the X server getting killed taking down the whole user session instead of whatever was actually using the most memory. Probably happening because it's the parent process to everything else, but it's still a mind-blowingly dumb way to handle the low memory condition.