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A userspace out-of-memory killer
17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 5 stories, 12 comments · first 2018-07-20 · latest 2026-06-01
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Install oomd or earlyoom. https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/ https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
comment by ars · 2026-06-01 · in Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004) -
…kernel had cgroups v2. [0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst... [1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd [2]: https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html
comment by TheDong · 2025-10-22 · in Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server -
…know that). The following not to use them, but for their POVs/concepts regarding the same problem: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd , https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom , https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang These, to maybe take…
comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-07-21 · in Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware -
…Facebook also wrote its own oom daemon, that systemd's was forked from: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.04-Systemd-OOMD
comment by 4oo4 · 2022-11-14 · in Systemd's Out of Memory killer kills every process in scope -
…Whether this systemd implementation is any better is, of course, another question entirely. [0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
comment by mickeyp · 2022-05-27 · in Ubuntu 22.04's new OOM kiler closes Firefox while in use -
There's a more configurable userspace alternative: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
comment by cwalv · 2022-04-21 · in In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018) -
…having to enter the picture, like Facebook's user-space oomd [1] or Android's LMKD [2] [1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd [2] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/perf/lmkd
comment by AceJohnny2 · 2021-12-17 · in Defrag Like It's 1993 -
…" It looks like systemd-oomd is related to (based on? from the same people as?) Facebook's oomd https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd , whose documentation gives a bunch of reasons as to why you would prefer a userspace oomd that takes…
comment by geofft · 2021-03-14 · in Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported -
…the mean time, you can probably improve your quality of life quite a bit by using something like: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
comment by nialv7 · 2020-04-10 · in Make Linux Fast Again (2019) -
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Facebook’s Oomdstory by SEJeff · 2019-09-21 · 0 comments
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…oomd [1]. I assure you, they're running that on their servers, not their web-browser-machines. [1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
comment by TheDong · 2019-08-06 · in The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure -
https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/ already merged in 4.20. https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/blob/master/README... and here's a less complicated, but similar proactive daemon: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom/blob/master/README.md
comment by pas · 2019-07-03 · in The Day “/Proc” Died -
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Oomd 0.1.0 released (A userspace out-of-memory killer)story by hakavlad · 2019-04-05 · 0 comments
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Facebooks out-of-memory handling approach is open sourcestory by Scotrix · 2018-07-24 · 0 comments
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Facebookincubator/oomd: A userspace out-of-memory killerstory by axiomdata316 · 2018-07-24 · 0 comments
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…the LKML thread, this appears to be the corresponding userland component for the OOM use-case: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd There was also more minimal proof-of-concept example posted by Endless OS guys:…
comment by zokier · 2018-07-21 · in PSI: Pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO -
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Oomd: A userspace out-of-memory killer by Facebookstory by lkurusa · 2018-07-20 · 1 comment