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arcanicanis · 23w
As is the situation of hitting OOM whether you have swap or not. Swap just slows down the time of getting to the threshold of the OOM killer being invoked. If you're pushing into the situation where y...
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@arcanicanis @nprofile1q... I have 64GiB compressed RAM swap, because I also need it. And I was experimenting with chunked swap, but I don't need that much memory. ~128 GiB effective Ram is plenty.

Most of your issues come just from misconfigured swap.

The situation was worse years ago, but these days none of those issues should happen if it's set up properly.
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arcanicanis · 23w
I'm speaking from my out-of-box experience on Kubuntu 25.10, 32GB physical, +4.3(?)GB swap. I'd be totally fine with my userspace stuff being forcibly killed on OOM rather than having an unresponsive system that's hiked up with activity on shuffling things in and out of swap under pressure, with Sys...