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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by ieoei9jjd on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:52AM (#20622246)
Linux use cases tend to be servers where user interaction is unexpected at 3AM? No one around to make a choice, so automate a choice.

IMO despite the standout behavior, I prefer my software to deal with itself.

Systems designed to wait for user input end up having design choices intent on keeping a user using them.

Software is just a tool. Not a lifestyle. Set and forget this shit as much as possible

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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by hvidgaard on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:44AM (#20622480)
If the alternative is simply killing a process or crashing the kernel, then surely a better approach would be to suspend the offending process and call a handle that does something. If you want that something to restart the machine, fine. You want it to notify the administrator, fine.
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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by pmontra on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:45AM (#20622485)
There is the use case of android phones. One of the answers to the OP is about that case. It sends that Google developed a user space process to monitor those events https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/5/1121

From that reply it seems that Facebook implemented something similar, I guess for their servers.

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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by jcelerier on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:34AM (#20623340)
> Linux use cases tend to be servers where user interaction is unexpected at 3AM? No one around to make a choice, so automate a choice.

Even if it's a small percentage of the overall "computing" population, there are still millions of people running Linux on the desktop (roughly 2% out of 3.2 billion people using internet makes for 64 million - a large european country). It's 64 million of people for which this behaviour is a pain in the arse.

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