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TranscriptMeme format: Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles

AJ styles caption: Stubborn process consuming too much memory.

Undertaker caption: OOM Killer

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[–] 1 point 2 days ago* (1 child)

That sounds to me like it's basically the same as turning off swap. I don't think oom killer activates until you fill up your swap as well.

I guess it could still be useful since it's more tunable than the kernel oom killer.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    it's not, because it takes swap usage into account, so you can benefit from swap without risking a frozen system

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    I guess swap can still be useful for background browser tabs and apps. I haven't run swap on my machines for years now, so I can't really remember how and when it decides to start moving stuff there.

    The last few times I ran into OOM killer it's been from compiling/linking some huge project that used up 90% of my ram on its own... so I've probably been having a different experience than most people.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    yeah, swap is definitely still useful and it gets used by the kernel well before the main memory is full

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (1 child)

    For what applications? Is it for people who don't have a lot if RAM? I have not had a swap partition in ages.

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