facebookincubator/oomd
A userspace out-of-memory killer
Recommended between 2025-10-22 and 2026-06-01. Last pushed 2026-10-29.
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What hackers say
“Install oomd or earlyoom.”
— ars, 2026-06-01 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Install oomd or earlyoom. https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/ https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
“Even better than earlyoom is systemd-oomd[0] or oomd[1].”
— TheDong, 2025-10-22 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Even better than earlyoom is systemd-oomd[0] or oomd[1]. systemd-oomd and oomd use the kernel's PSI[2] information which makes them more efficient and responsive, while earlyoom is just polling. earlyoom keeps getting suggested, even though we have PSI now, just because people are used to using it and recommending it from back before the kernel had cgroups v2. [0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-oomd.service.html [1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd [2]: https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html
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Alternatives hackers mention
- rfjakob/earlyoom ▲ 6