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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The process that takes up the memory is killed

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not in my experience. Mostly it just hard-reboots. Occasionally a random process that is using lots of memory is killed (not necessarily the one you want). That only works about 5% of the time though.