1y ago

Not exactly the kind of respect it would like to get

Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.

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Related and IMO a much better option for Linux desktops:
Early OOM
- This is great! Why doesnt distros use this by default???
  Just put plasmashell and a few in there and you will have a working oom killer. Finally.
  I will install this the first thing tomorrow
  Wait... Fedora has this since quite a while, strange.
  
  Because if i'm rendering on blender on my lower end PC with expected freezes but it auto kills the render?
  
  Why doesnt distros use this by default???
  Nohang has some explanations to this.
  I.e. kernel devs are ignorant to the issue of oomkiller not working as intended on desktop.
  Edit: Lkml is down.
- Is this better than oomd?
  
  Wasn't oomd the facebook thing for complicated server setups?
  edit: yeah, for large data centers. Imho overengineered for single user desktop sessions. Earlyoom is simple and tiny.
- Just decrease your swap space.
  Unless you have an unusual system, there's no reason to have several GB of swap.
  
  that won't solve the system unresponsiveness
  
  or fiddle with the vm/swappiness value
  
  Is hibernate no longer a thing? I thought that needed swap.
ok... I'll ask.. where the heck is the "sysreq" key on my standard keyboard?
- Should be the screenshot key
  
  so it is! and I tested it, of course, with alt-sys-b which instantly rebooted my machine. nice.
  
  Prt sc one? Print screen?
How come sysreq + f is not on by default? After discovering and enabling it I haven’t had to hard restart due to hangs or crashes.
- Debian has it by default I think. Arch has it disabled because it might be a security risk if someone had physical access to your computer.
  
  those debian daredevils like the thrill of living on the edge
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring ... Or so I've heard.
- That restarts the system. This only attempts to kill the app that uses most memory.

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