It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 15:19:00 UTC 2015
I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM.
A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory,
driving it into swapping hell.
I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On
return I still didn't have a prompt. Had to power cycle it.
This is F23, everything is setup default regarding kernel memory policies,
etc.
So, can we configure things to give a better experience? Can we make this
default?
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