Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.
Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.
Related and IMO a much better option for Linux desktops:
Early OOM
This is great! Why doesnt distros use this by default???
Just put plasmashell and a few in there and you will have a working oom killer. Finally.
I will install this the first thing tomorrow
Wait… Fedora has this since quite a while, strange.
Because if i’m rendering on blender on my lower end PC with expected freezes but it auto kills the render?
Nohang has some explanations to this.
I.e. kernel devs are ignorant to the issue of oomkiller not working as intended on desktop.
Edit: Lkml is down.
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Is this better than oomd?
Wasn’t oomd the facebook thing for complicated server setups?
edit: yeah, for large data centers. Imho overengineered for single user desktop sessions. Earlyoom is simple and tiny.
Just decrease your swap space.
Unless you have an unusual system, there’s no reason to have several GB of swap.
that won’t solve the system unresponsiveness
Have you tried?
Because it does.
yes, even turning swap off entirely doesn’t solve it. It doesn’t take much to find people reporting a similar experience.
Better enable swap again. Linux expects swap.
or fiddle with the vm/swappiness value
Is hibernate no longer a thing? I thought that needed swap.
Actually, not much.
It always had reliability issues with bad hardware, and computers boot incredibly quickly nowadays. But yeah, it requires swap, and if you want it, there’s a sibling answer here about sawppiness.