[konsole] [Bug 480884] Konsole terminates when a program launched by it runs out of memory (oom-kill)

[Massimiliano L]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480884

--- Comment #2 from Massimiliano L <m.lincetto at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #1)
> Unfortunately KDE software is not responsible for deciding which process to
> kill during out of memory events. Usually it is either the kernel OOM
> killer, and the systemd OOM killer, and we have no control over how these
> behave. If you find the current OOM killer unsatisfactory, you could try
> customizing those or using alternate OOM killers like
> https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom.

Thank you for the answer. But this occurs systematically and does not occur
with GNOME Terminal. So there should be something in the design or behavior of
Konsole that triggers the OOM killer to terminate it together with the child
process. Any ideas on why this may be?

If this is "not a bug" can we turn this into a wishlist item? I believe it can
significantly impact the user experience in some cases, putting Konsole (and
KDE software) behind competitors.

It could be also interesting to understand whether this is distro-related. If
people not using Fedora are not experiencing the same issue, I may file a bug
report with Fedora as well.

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