Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.
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ok… I’ll ask… where the heck is the “sysreq” key on my standard keyboard?
Should be the screenshot key
so it is! and I tested it, of course, with alt-sys-b which instantly rebooted my machine. nice.
Related and IMO a much better option for Linux desktops:
This is great! Why doesnt distros use this by default???
Just put plasmashell and a few in there and you will have a working oom killer. Finally.
I will install this the first thing tomorrow
Wait… Fedora has this since quite a while, strange.
Because if i’m rendering on blender on my lower end PC with expected freezes but it auto kills the render?
Sounds like niche use cases
Not niche there can be times when you want to run something heavy and it auto kills the exact thing you are trying to run. You have a 1gb ram device and it kills everything? Thats undesirable
Hm… the process itself should not take that much RAM. I dont know if normally the OS should assign the max RAM to the program.
But this should not happen and I wonder how “just letting it freeze” works
It makes system unresponsive, true. But its still running the main things, the render or decompressing or whatever. So it eventually unfreezes when it completes, by giving other programs(including GUI) back the CPU and ram.
We do not break userspace in this household young man.
Why doesnt distros use this by default???
Nohang has some explanations to this.
I.e. kernel devs are ignorant to the issue of oomkiller not working as intended on desktop.
Edit: Lkml is down.
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring … Or so I’ve heard.
