Earlyoom Alternatives

earlyoom reviews and mentions

• Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with the best of Google
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2024

  EarlyOOM [1] could help with that quite a lot. Not to sure about using it on chromebooks, but linux got quite a bit more usable because of it.

  [1] https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

• Earlyoom – Early OOM Daemon for Linux
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2023
• Fedora Workstation 39
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2023
• earlyoom VS thrash-protect - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 12 Oct 2023
• Linuxatemyram.com
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023

  > The system is not supposed to 'lock up' when you run out of physical RAM. If it does, something is wrong. It might become slower as pages are flushed to disk but it shouldn't be terrible unless you are really constrained and thrashing. If the Kernel still can't allocate memory, you should expect the OOMKiller to start removing processes. It should not just 'lock up'. Something is wrong.

  I don't why but locking up is my usual experience for Desktop Linux for many years and distros, and I remember seeing at least one article explaining why. The only real solution is calling the OOMKiller early either with a daemon or SysRq.

  > It should not take minutes. Should happen really quickly once thresholds are reached and allocations are attempted. What is probably happening is that the system has not run out of memory just yet but it is very close and is busy thrashing the swap. If this is happening frequently you may need to adjust your settings (vm.overcommit, vm.admin_reserve_kbytes, etc). Or even deploy something like EarlyOOM (https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom). Or you might just need more RAM, honestly.

  Yeah. Exactly. But as the thread says, why aren't those things set up automatically?

• OOM still a disaster zone
  1 project | /r/androiddev | 25 Jun 2023
• Fedora spins
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 19 May 2023

  It's not that simple: some defaults may differ, and some features may arrive at different times (if ever). For example, earlyoom has been enabled on Workstation since F32, but the KDE Plasma spin got it one release later.

• So what exactly do I do if Linux crashes?
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 25 Apr 2023

  Most answers will answer your question, but you can do better and avoid the freezes in the first place. IME almost every time the system froze up and didn't come back in a few seconds it was out of memory. The obvious solution is to add memory, but you can use Early OOM to kill hungry processes if you're running out of memory instead.

• Why is there no reliable way to receive signal when OOM killer decides to kill you
  3 projects | /r/linux | 15 Apr 2023
• What do you do when Linux becomes unresponsive (in a frozen state,mouse clicks or keyboard doesn't work)
  1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 13 Jan 2023

  It sounds like you're running out of memory though, so if your OS's OOM killer isn't working as well as it should, you can try earlyoom as an alternative.

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