On Friday, January 3, 2020, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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