• Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    No, the equivalent would be a kernel panic that the other user had linked. This is a situation where the RAM is fully used and a program’s request for memory cannot be fulfilled. This is still a very bad situation because pretty much everything will grind to a halt. The Linux kernel thus makes a decision to kill a process (or multiple) until enough RAM is available again. Usually it kills the process with the most used RAM, but there’s methods to influence the decision.