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Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

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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

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Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 11:40 +0200
  Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Sven Hoexter <sven@stormbind.net> - 2022-03-29 12:10 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 20:40 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-03-30 10:20 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-31 19:00 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 12:30 +0200
            Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-20 17:30 +0200
              Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 18:20 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-20 19:50 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-20 20:40 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 20:50 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 22:10 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-29 22:20 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 21:00 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-29 21:20 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-01 08:10 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-15 03:10 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 08:00 +0200
            Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-15 12:10 +0200
              Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 12:20 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 17:50 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-19 22:10 +0200
  Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 12:30 +0200

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