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    Handling non-responsive and frozen applications (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

    The canonical documentation is https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst (ctrl-f oom) but if you search a bit you'll find various guides that might be easier to digest.

    https://www.baeldung.com/linux/memory-overcommitment-oom-killer looks like an informative recent article on the subject, and reminds me that my knowledge is a bit outdated. (TIL about the choom(1) command which was added to util-linux in 2018 as an alternative to manipulating things in /proc directly...)

    https://dev.to/rrampage/surviving-the-linux-oom-killer-2ki9 from 2018 might also be worth reading.

    How to make your adjustments persist for a given desktop application is left as an exercise to the reader :)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Thanks! Will have to come back to this