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by man8alexd 28 days ago
OOM is better. If a program doesn't handle ENOMEM properly, then its state is unpredictable and can lead to data corruption.
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IshKebab 28 days ago
I don't think it's as simple as that. Killing a program can have unintended consequences too, e.g. corrupting files they were in the middle of writing.
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