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OS are designed to fully exploit available resources, Linux tries its best before triggering an OOM kill. I recommend using the earlyoom if you want more aggre
by negrel 23d ago
OS are designed to fully exploit available resources, Linux tries its best before triggering an OOM kill.
I recommend using the earlyoom if you want more aggresive oom kill:
https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
The README contains a lot of interesting information.
- oomedfornight 23d agoA strange behavior I sometimes run into with earlyoom is that I try to start up some buggy software of mine and it seemingly never starts. It took a long evening to figure out that it gets earlyoom'd immediately because it tries to allocate too much. Previously the very familiar hitching and freezing was a very easy sign of what kind of issue I was dealing with