Absolutely can and will take action. Doesn’t always kill the right process (sometimes it kills big database engines for the crime of existing), but usually gives me enough headroom to SSH back in and fix it myself.
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Does the OOM killer actually work for anyone? In every linux system I’ve used, if I run out of memory, the system simply freezes.
Absolutely can and will take action. Doesn’t always kill the right process (sometimes it kills big database engines for the crime of existing), but usually gives me enough headroom to SSH back in and fix it myself.
it does for me, usually by killing my session and throwing me back to the login screen