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  • le9-patch

    [PATCH] mm: Protect the working set under memory pressure to prevent thrashing, avoid high latency and prevent livelock in near-OOM conditions

    • Oh that’s a known problem. There are many patch sets floating around that fix it by triggering the OOM killer when the system is thrashing: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch

    I’ve never ran into this specific problem back when I was daily driving desktop Linux, but I did run into 1000 similar ones that needed bandaid solutions. It’s death of a thousand cuts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490753

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