TranscriptMeme format: Undertaker standing behind AJ Styles

AJ styles caption: Stubborn process consuming too much memory.

Undertaker caption: OOM Killer

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    yeah, swap is definitely still useful and it gets used by the kernel well before the main memory is full

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    For what applications? Is it for people who don't have a lot if RAM? I have not had a swap partition in ages.

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