Comment by hnlmorg

> Who says it needs to be desktop for proper memory management, servers and embedded can crash willy-nilly with OOM?

The context of the thread is about the UX.

And the OS crashing isn’t a better option than an OOM killer. Frankly, there’s no good automated options. That’s why modern desktop OSs present users with a warning. And hence why we are talking about GUIs.

> In any case, Xenix, DG/UX, SunOS/Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, z/OS UNIX, NeXTSTEP.

Listing OSs doesn’t explain how they handle things better.

For example you’ve cited SunOS and I already said previously, I’ve seen SunOS completely die on its arse when OOM.