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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