Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    I got surprised like two days ago when I got a desktop notification that Linux kernel killed a process, because there was no memory available, or something like that. I didn’t know it can do that, lol.

    • srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Pretty useful for not getting locked out. It can be finetuned if you want to assign priorities and that.

      It is usually handled by systemd-oomd.