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Discussion on: Surviving the Linux OOM Killer

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Raunak Ramakrishnan • Edited

Agreed! There is no substitute for good monitoring. It catches many issues before they become bigger problems. Ultimately, we must be fixing the root cause for high memory which is generally poor design/architecture.

What you said about the tragedy of commons is exactly what happened to nice scores for process priority.