alt Hacker News> First off, this is exactly how systemd-oomd is supposed to behave under memory pressure. The documentation is specific on this; systemd-oomd itself says:
> > [...] If the configured limits are exceeded, systemd-oomd will select a cgroup to terminate, and send SIGKILL to all processes in it. [...]
> By having the [email protected] template be enrolled in systemd-oomd, Fedora made the cgroup that systemd-oomd would select to be killed be all of your processes (across all of your sessions, if you have more than one). ...
Maybe *Fedora* has fixed or improved in the last 4 years. Or maybe they don't run Fedora.
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rwmj • today at 7:32 PM
I'm a Fedora developer and I can assure you that Fedora's behaviour when it runs out of memory is still terrible.
One thing Fedora does now, is use zram.
In my experience it works really well. I wonder why my computer is a bit sluggish, and find out I have several gigs in zram.
If that was in swap on a disk, it would be really painful.