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Linux OOM killer

Kernel subsystem that terminates a process with SIGKILL when memory cannot be reclaimed, selecting a victim by a badness score derived from RSS plus swap and adjusted by oom_score_adj.

Known aliases

OOM killer
Out-Of-Memory killer

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 distinct publisher

Exit code 137 is the kernel collecting on a bet you did not know it placed

Kubernetes calls it OOMKilled. Linux calls it overcommit coming due, and a badness score nobody in the deploy pipeline has looked at decides who pays.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives25
Confidence55