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O_H_E on April 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Make Linux Fast Again (2019)

Try a userspace oom. EarlyOOM has been a life saver for me, but there is a few others. AFAIK Fedora and Clear linux have begun shipping EarlyOOM by default.

nohang's README have a gist about other projects.

https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang

TD-Linux on April 10, 2020 | [–]

Fedora even enabled it by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableEarlyoom

foobarian on April 10, 2020 | [–]

Thanks for that. Sure enough this was even on HN before :)

https://hackertimes.com/item?id=20620545

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