On Wed, Jan 31, 2024, at 11:40 AM, Paul Grosu wrote:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/
> 
> 2) Or you can completely disable it:
> 
> https://www.cjjackson.dev/posts/what-is-systemd-oomd-how-to-disable-it/

We need bug reports to get it fixed rather than disabling it, if it's causing 
things to get clobbered that shouldn't be.

The kernel OOM killer is strictly concerned about kernel survival in 
dramatically low memory situations. It is unconcerned about user space making 
progress. Hence user space oom managers.

I admit this is probably suboptimal in some cases. Full resource control is a 
better way of handling the ambiguity whether a program is incorrectly hogging 
resources versus simply doing its job. Resource control may not obviate a user 
space oom killer but I think what we really care about is giving a program all 
the resources it needs, up to the point that the user wants an interactive 
desktop - and then the kernel needs to (in effect) preempt the resource hungry 
processes in favor of user-desktop interactivity. Resource control can do this 
but we don't have everything wired up yet, more work is needed.


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Chris Murphy
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