• Faresh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Does the OOM killer actually work for anyone? In every linux system I’ve used, if I run out of memory, the system simply freezes.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, it takes surprisingly long for the OOM killer to take action, but the system unfreezes. Just wait a few minutes and see whether that does the trick.