earlyoom

Early OOM Daemon
  https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
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Earlyoom is an userspace OOM-killer which can avoid the system to get into unresponsive state caused by swapping, which is most likely to occur when a large swap is present and memory is tight. It checks the amount of available memory and swap periodically, and when both are below a preconfigured value, it kills the largest process.
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AtomicRobotMan0101 2 weeks ago

Saves the heartache of a system that becomes paralysed due to 100% memory usage