On Friday, January 3, 2020, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableEarlyoom > > > > == Summary == > > Install earlyoom package, and enable it by default. This will cause > > the kernel oomkiller to trigger sooner, but will not affect which > > process it chooses to kill off. The idea is to recover from out of > > memory situations sooner, rather than the typical complete system hang > > in which the user has no other choice but to force power off. > > > > I'd like to see this enabled on all Fedora variants by default. This > seems to be generally useful for workstations and servers. >
The idea might be the implementation is not. Using a percentage to decide "almost out of memory" is going to hurt on systems with large amounts of memory be it a 32gb desktop or a 2tb server. You'd have plenty of memory left and it starts killing processes ...
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