July 8, 2021 . 1 MIN READ
It is possible to call OOM-killer (out of memory killer) directly by keyboard combination:
SysRq-F
SysRq key is usually combined within PrtSc key on keyboards.
OOM-killer kills some process(-es) and system becomes responsive again.
Thx Raman for advice on this feature in comments above.
PS: This helped me a lot. I agree with opinion that this is the most useful advise about that problem if it caused by Chrome or whatever memory greedy software. But you need to keep in mind that OOM-killer could kill some really important process, use it carefully.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28175/system-hanging-when-it-runs-out-of-memory
https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=7683%3E
https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/dos-attack.11704/
https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/hack-attempts.11689/
