Even so, in OOM situations, sysrq invocation is still an order of magnitude faster than killall invoked from a graphical terminal emulator. As for hinting to o

Even so, in OOM situations, sysrq invocation is still an order of magnitude faster than killall invoked from a graphical terminal emulator. As for hinting to oom_killer: I have a script which searches for chrome and flash processes every minute, and sets their oom_score_adj in the high hundreds. This makes reasonably sure that oom killer will go after these processes first.