I don’t see an article linked for the relevant headline, but when I first installed linux (I use Arch btw) on my desktop, it didn’t come with swap auto-configured by the install helper ArchInstaller, but did come with oomkiller and also with 4/16GB of zram preconfigured. With three displays and three different kind of browsers open I ran out of memory when launching a game fairly quickly, and of course oomkiller went to town. Not only that, but because of stupid zram it also seemed to be stuck on an endless loop of not being able to kill something.
I don’t see an article linked for the relevant headline, but when I first installed linux (I use Arch btw) on my desktop, it didn’t come with swap auto-configured by the install helper ArchInstaller, but did come with oomkiller and also with 4/16GB of zram preconfigured. With three displays and three different kind of browsers open I ran out of memory when launching a game fairly quickly, and of course oomkiller went to town. Not only that, but because of stupid zram it also seemed to be stuck on an endless loop of not being able to kill something.
Oomkiller you say? I’ve never used the installer…