EarlyOOM is great for keeping systems responsive. I can’t understand why the default memory management on many distros still seems to be “do everything possible to avoid automatic termination of processes even if that means the system becomes borderline unusable.” It makes for a terrible user experience, and most users are just going to restart the machine when it happens rather than try to struggle through a slide show to manually kill whatever’s causing the problem.
EarlyOOM is great for keeping systems responsive. I can’t understand why the default memory management on many distros still seems to be “do everything possible to avoid automatic termination of processes even if that means the system becomes borderline unusable.” It makes for a terrible user experience, and most users are just going to restart the machine when it happens rather than try to struggle through a slide show to manually kill whatever’s causing the problem.