Yeah... you can't rely on the OOM killer alone, you need an OOM daemon like earlyoom or the one provided by systemd. Or some other solution, given that I went OOM regardless of setting up a daemon once. On 32 GB. AAAAAAAAAAAA
My oldie n moldie Asus laptop is running with Linux Mint [cininamon version] only 8gb, and it's fine. Not great, but fine
>The what, asking as a person with 16gb I have no idea what this means. Basically, the OOM Killer is supposed to detect when you're out of memory and kill the offending process. It does not work very well.