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IMO OOM killing should be reserved for single processes misbehaving. When a lot of different applications just use a decent amount of memory and exhaust the system RAM swapping to disk is the appropriate thing to do.


When you set cgroup limits, you tell the kernel how to determine when a process is misbehaving and needs to be OOM-killed.




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