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by kevin_nisbet 3108 days ago
Funny story though, we had a database server get nuked because a client process used too much memory. We hadn't done the tuning correctly and someone decided to run their queries locally. So it was entirely our fault. But mysqld - 220GB, mysql (client) - 30GB, let's nuke the server process.

Lesson learned, make sure you adjust the OOM killer on things like services that use lots of RAM.