The Linux OOM killer remains worse than useless on systems with more than about 64 MiB RAM
@directhex it have saved me many times from some of my projects with exponential memory leaks.
@ekg @directhex did it "save" you by killing your entire machine? :P
@ekg I don’t think I’ve ever had an OOM incident where the killer hasn’t gone haywire and started killing random vital processes like sshd rather than waiting for the multi gigabyte processes that caused the OOM to finish being killed
I don't think I've ever seen it terminate a process in under 45 minutes, by which time most other processes have already crashed due to IO timeouts.