Ubuntu 22.04's new OOM killing system is killing applications (like Firefox) while they're being used and it is a problem

• nohang

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  A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux

IIRC, this is what nohang uses to handle oom situations. If you run it in desktop mode it'll give a notification before it starts killing stuff, and then a notification of what was killed.

• systemd

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  The systemd System and Service Manager

  

Yeah, and the devs agree AFAICT, it's marked as an issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20649

• WorkOS

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• earlyoom

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  earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux

Install earlyoom if you wish to protect user applications.

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