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minus-squaretestmanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoDidn’t Fedora introduce something that prevents the system from allowing programs to actually eat whole RAM and cause whole system to freeze? Are any other distros working on stealing acquiring this functionality?
minus-squarejoojmachinelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoThey just implemented a systemd feature, systemd-oomd. To be honest, it can cause issues in some edge cases, but it works pretty well in any distro (that uses systemd).
minus-squaresoutherntofulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoThere’s also earlyoom that’s systemd-independent. If you have a source about the edge cases produced by such software i’m curious
Didn’t Fedora introduce something that prevents the system from allowing programs to actually eat whole RAM and cause whole system to freeze?
Are any other distros working on
stealingacquiring this functionality?They just implemented a systemd feature, systemd-oomd. To be honest, it can cause issues in some edge cases, but it works pretty well in any distro (that uses systemd).
There’s also earlyoom that’s systemd-independent. If you have a source about the edge cases produced by such software i’m curious