On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 19:39 +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 29/03/2022 10:56, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > > The in kernel oom killing is a constant issue. If you look through the > > lwn.net articles of the past years there is work done to improve the > > situation, but I believe that's not in a default setup yet. > > Yes it's terrible, how this can be broken so badly? Logic is very simple > here, even back in Windows XP times it was already solved by Microsoft? > Just one simple thing, one line of logic: > > 1. If RAM memory usage > 95% AND no swap available AND I/O cache already > dropped THEN kill most memory hungry process > 2. Repeat > > Job done!
I may be wrong here, but I seem to remember that something like that used to happen a long time ago, and it had a habit of picking the X server as the first thing to kill, not very friendly for GUI users. -- Tixy