• Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    I’m not sure what this comic is trying to say but in my recent experience a single misbehaving website can still consume all available swap at which point Linux will sometimes completely lock up for many minutes before the out-of-memory killer decides what to kill - and then sometimes it still kills the desktop environment instead of the browser.

    (I do know how to use oom_adj; I’m talking about the default configuration on popular desktop distros.)