I’m not sure what you mean. Stop my computer from hanging like that? Or make it so that SIGTERM and SIGKILL work with those magic keys? I don’t know what an OOM killer is.
I’d definitely be interested in something that stopped the computer from crashing. But I kind of doubt that’s going to happen; because as I said, I’m pretty sure it’s a hardware thing. (But I suppose appropriate software might allow it to successful recover from the problem without having to restart.) It’s pretty rare by the way. I use the computer almost every day, and I haven’t had this problem happen for a few weeks. I’ve basically given up trying to fix it.
Yeah the hanging is being caused by your RAM being filled. Systemd-oomd will kill things more aggressively than the kernel out-of-memory handler that should stop it from locking up.
Alright, then that sounds like its definitely worth trying. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it will be hard for me to tell whether or not it is working, because in the ideal case: nothing happens. But I’ll definitely try it out and hope for the best.
You could try enabling systemd-oomd. It’s a userspace OOM killer and seems to be aggressive enough to mostly stop that from happening.
I’m not sure what you mean. Stop my computer from hanging like that? Or make it so that SIGTERM and SIGKILL work with those magic keys? I don’t know what an OOM killer is.
I’d definitely be interested in something that stopped the computer from crashing. But I kind of doubt that’s going to happen; because as I said, I’m pretty sure it’s a hardware thing. (But I suppose appropriate software might allow it to successful recover from the problem without having to restart.) It’s pretty rare by the way. I use the computer almost every day, and I haven’t had this problem happen for a few weeks. I’ve basically given up trying to fix it.
Yeah the hanging is being caused by your RAM being filled. Systemd-oomd will kill things more aggressively than the kernel out-of-memory handler that should stop it from locking up.
Alright, then that sounds like its definitely worth trying. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess it will be hard for me to tell whether or not it is working, because in the ideal case: nothing happens. But I’ll definitely try it out and hope for the best.