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by efskap 322 days ago
>which is no RAM management at all

I'm sure the Android one is much more aggressive, but Linux's OOM killer isn't too different is it?

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OOM is only triggered when you actually run out of virtual memory. With modern phones that shouldn't normally happen unless you're doing something silly like compiling a web browser.
oomkiller is triggered when requested pages can't be allocated