mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•What eternity feels like
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11 days agoRuns debian unstable. Shuts down his machine every year or so.
Runs debian unstable. Shuts down his machine every year or so.
I don’t think the billionaires’ investments are going to be worth billions if the global economy collapses.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the leaking process will be the next process to try to allocate memory after you run out. It might actually be your window manager, for example.
The OOM killer is a last-ditch attempt by the OS to keep running, but it is very likely to leave your system in an unstable state.
The attraction of Linux is precisely that it isn’t one of the two ‘standards’. Your working environment doesn’t get determined by some product manager in a far-away office, who has a set of target users in mind, which he’s given fictional names, biographies and mugshots.