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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

OOM killer doesn't work

Arch totally freezes, when running out of memory. OOM killer doesn't kick in.
This means, every time I fail to properly manually(!) monitor and react to memory usage, my system dies. I experience the same thing on all my 3 separate Arch installations.

I have lots of current experience with Ubuntu and CentoOS/Amazon Linux as well. This problem doesn't exist there, OOM killer is triggered every time the system runs out of memory. Could someone please help me figure out how to configure Arch to do the same thing?

sabroad

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Registered: 2015-05-24

Posts: 242

Re: OOM killer doesn't work

Arch totally freezes, when running out of memory. OOM killer doesn't kick in.

What have you configured for swap?

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seth

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Re: OOM killer doesn't work

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improv … conditions

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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

Re: OOM killer doesn't work

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improv … conditions

Thank you, I'll play with that.

As for swap, I have multiple configurations, one without swap - it doesn't matter at all.