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    Interestingly enough, it happens even when there is no swap file. Apparently, readonly memory mapped files (like executables, libraries, perhaps graphic resources) are swapped out instead. Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 15:03
  • Facebook's oomd is a user-space daemon designed to kill processes based on overall system throughput (i.e., only when thrashing). But it seems pretty complicated to set up for desktops/workstations (which probably aren't putting tasks in cgroups or containers). Commented Aug 4, 2019 at 18:57