• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    11·
    2 days ago

    That’s cool, but in my experience if you get to the OOM killer then 80% of the time it’s too late and your system is basically dead. My laptop hard reboots most of the time when this happens.

    Hopefully it works with the early-OOM hacks.

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
      3·
      21 hours ago

      99% of the time, it’s my browser, so I ended up writing a script that watches memory used. If it reaches 95%, it throws a warning, and 98% force kills my browser. I’d rather that happen than my entire system lock up and have to hard reboot.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        3·
        17 hours ago

        There’s a “proper” version of this hack called early oom. I haven’t used it though and now that I look at it it seems like it uses the same completely broken “guess which process to kill, who cares if it’s init” system that the normal oom killer uses so your solution sounds better.

        Is it so hard to just pause the system and ask the user which app to kill?

  • kurwa@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    That’s sweet. I always used to have this problem with my memory running out, I fixed it by getting a shit load of RAM.

    • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
      2·
      2 days ago

      I have 32 GB but it’s not enough. Try opening 8 instances of VSCode, Firefox and Chrome with a few dozen tabs. Unfortunately my laptop doesn’t support 64 GB of RAM.

      • kurwa@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        I know your pain. My work laptop only has 32 GB. Sometimes I have to run at least 4 to 5 instances across vs code, visual studio, and such. I wish I could use my home computer instead because that has 128 GB of RAM.

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    2 days ago

    But if you’re filling up all RAM and swap, either you needed to upgrade a while ago, or you’re doing something wrong.