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Preventing Ubuntu's Out of Memory killer from crashing your login environment

(2026-02-13T22:00:00.000Z) The user environment on my Ubuntu laptop kept crashing, and I couldn't figure out why or find a solution. Turns out that high memory usage, coupled with an Ubuntu subsystem for reining in "memory pressure", was addressing the problem by killing every process in my login session. The cure is relatively simple.

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