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Call me an old geezer but I remember having this thing called swap.

• Twirrim 1mo ago
  Right, and when it gets filled, the OOM killer comes along and does its thing.
  • dwattttt 1mo ago
    On some platforms. Others make other arrangements, with other tradeoffs. It's been less than 24 hours since an OOM killer was identified as responsible for a bug I was experiencing.
  • a96 1mo ago
    And kills some vital process instead of killing the JVM or the web browser that actually ate all the (virtual) memory.
• nomel 1mo ago
  Yeah, I'm super confused. Is the 34 year old solution to this (swap) somehow broken these days?