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Re:The Day “/Proc” Died by pas on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:57PM (#20349776)
You probably won't until the distro you use (or you manually) set up something other than the default OOM killer.

You probably have too much swap. More than ~10 sec * your I/O speed (so let's say 512M-1G) is probably the max for the reasons you mentioned.

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Re:The Day “/Proc” Died by Avamander on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:48PM (#20355994)
The system freezes also without any swap enabled but much more suddenly (there's no slowdown before dying). It's really just that the OOM killer triggers way way way too late.
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