hakavlad/nohang
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A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2020-01-02 · latest 2026-08-18
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…literally `apt install nohang; systemctl enable --now nohang.service`. Hardly that difficult. [0]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
comment by andrepd · 2026-08-18 · in Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM -
…to trigger the OOM when the workingset of the last N deciseconds doesn't fit in memory. And < https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang > has some more suggestions.
comment by webstrand · 2025-12-20 · in Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers -
…the same problem: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd , https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom , https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang These, to maybe take inspiration from, to adjust dynamically: https://www.linuxbash.sh/post/tune-vmswappi…
comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-07-21 · in Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware -
For desktop use, nohang does what the name says. https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
comment by melvyn2 · 2023-12-31 · in There is an OOM kill count in Linux -
Indeed, found something in this vein https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang/issues/58
comment by zokier · 2023-08-21 · in Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF -
…On desktop, the same strategy just doesn't work and only makes working on it more painful. [1]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
comment by jeroenhd · 2021-05-19 · in Improving Firefox stability on Linux -
How will systemd-oomd communicate to the user? I was using https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang And it sent notification signaling to save your work before the application X will be killed. (I always wanted a way to click somewhere on the…
comment by The_rationalist · 2021-03-14 · in Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported -
I use https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang and it's a game changer
comment by The_rationalist · 2020-11-16 · in Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim -
…linux have begun shipping EarlyOOM by default. nohang's README have a gist about other projects. https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
comment by O_H_E · 2020-04-10 · in Make Linux Fast Again (2019) -
…cgroups, exe realpathes, environs, cmdlines and euids with specified regular expressions; [0]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
comment by qqii · 2020-01-02 · in Software Disenchantment (2018)