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by raverbashing 99 days ago
I don't think MacOS OoMs as Linux

(and to be honest the way Linux does acts on OoMs are quite debatable)

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macOS can OOM, ish.

If you don't have any more disk space for swap, or memory pressure gets too high, you get the "You've ran out of application memory" dialog box with a list of applications you can force quit, and macOS leaves it up to the user on what to kill instead of the system choosing automatically.