how to configure Linux to call oom_kill on its own
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I do not want my computer to swap data to disk. I have no swap partition: Back in the day (maybe as recently as kernel 2.4?) this used to work. Memory-hungry processes would be killed by the oom killer and I would restart them. But now (Linux 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC …
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OOM doesn't necessarily kill the process you think it will. Read about it here: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/ I suspect what is happening is that because chrome uses a different process for each page, it's confusing the OOM-killer's heuristics and…
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