My 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

My 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.