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The OOM killer picks a victim in Linux

LinuxMonitoring & PerformanceOOMadvanced

What this snippet does

When memory runs out the kernel kills a process; the service just disappears with no error of its own.

Expected output

Out of memory: Killed process 2841 (node) total-vm:4210112kB

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