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Meme format: Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles
AJ styles caption: Stubborn process consuming too much memory.
Undertaker caption: OOM Killer
Meme format: Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles
AJ styles caption: Stubborn process consuming too much memory.
Undertaker caption: OOM Killer
it’s not, because it takes swap usage into account, so you can benefit from swap without risking a frozen system
I guess swap can still be useful for background browser tabs and apps. I haven’t run swap on my machines for years now, so I can’t really remember how and when it decides to start moving stuff there.
The last few times I ran into OOM killer it’s been from compiling/linking some huge project that used up 90% of my ram on its own… so I’ve probably been having a different experience than most people.
yeah, swap is definitely still useful and it gets used by the kernel well before the main memory is full