I suppose there are two common scenarios roughly. If I did something (like try and decompress an archive) and I run out of memory I want that process to be kil

I suppose there are two common scenarios roughly. If I did something (like try and decompress an archive) and I run out of memory I want that process to be killed. If my system/config is simply not up to scratch and the normal services are causing thrashing that needs to be addressed directly and OOM kill isn't intended to help I don't think.