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Comment by ducktective

Tangential, but does anyone know why in 2026 and on Debian 13, my machine still hangs when some process exhausts RAM?

Is there really no higher-priority kernel process to prevent total freeze of the system and send a SIGKILL to the culprit process when such a scenario happens?

parent ducktective 1 month ago

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