https://www.scrivano.org/tags/oom/ Recent content in Oom on *scratch* Hugo en Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:03:54 +0000 https://www.scrivano.org/posts/2020-08-14-oom-group/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:49:32 +0200 https://www.scrivano.org/posts/2020-08-14-oom-group/ <p>One annoying issue with setting a memory limit for a container is that the OOM killer can leave the container in an inconsistent state with only some of its processes terminated. When a cgroup hits its memory limit, the kernel selects a single process to kill based on a badness score, not all the processes in the cgroup. This means that a multi-process container — for example, one running a web server and several worker processes — may continue running in a broken state after the OOM event rather than being cleanly torn down.</p>