Accidentally wrote a dead loop that hogged both CPU time and RAM. Waited for kernel to kill it, but 5 min after nothing happened, so I restarted the computer. In theory Linux Kernel should start killing processes once RAM is drained, so what's going on here? #askfedi - https://uwu.social/tags/askfedi

Hanuwu - https://uwu.social/@Hanuwu My understanding is that if you use swap on a fast-enough disk, there can be enough activity for the kernel to not trigger OOM.On my machines I usually use either earlyoom or thrash-protect to prevent this.Further reading, if you’re interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450960 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450960

@MischievousTomato@poa.st @casualwp@qoto.org @Hanuwu@uwu.social rpm stands for rapes per minute

@Houkago_Jimtime@poa.st @Hanuwu@uwu.social @casualwp@qoto.org yes. I am a very fast rapist.

@MischievousTomato@poa.st @Houkago_Jimtime@poa.st @Hanuwu@uwu.social @casualwp@qoto.org That explains my asshole.

@Reptiltejosh63@poa.st @Hanuwu@uwu.social @Houkago_Jimtime@poa.st @casualwp@qoto.org 👁️ 👁️

@MischievousTomato@poa.st @Houkago_Jimtime@poa.st @Hanuwu@uwu.social @casualwp@qoto.org well that makes sense because i misread your first post as "5400rpm dick"