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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by nullc on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:00PM (#33896842)
> it will become so slow at to be totally unresponsive and the only thing you can do is to reboot.

It's been well over a decade since I've seen that kind of behavior. Storage devices became much lower latency and the kernel swapper got much smarter.

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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by Avamander on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:44AM (#33909076)
Can't confirm. I have more than 32GiB of memory and very fast storage and I see freezes more often than something being killed. The worst I saw was LUKS/dm-crypt being unable to allocate memory and slightly corrupting one of the mounted filesystems.

Linux Desktop in OOM situations is absolutely trash.

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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by kaba0 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:35PM (#33900616)
It still happens on an 8GiB laptop even with zram (I should probably buy a ram stick at this point).
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Re:I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops by doliveira on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:45PM (#33897517)
Oh, definitely not my experience with 16 GB of RAM.
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