find proccess with largest rss

[RanHuang]

By default, earlyoom identifies and terminates the process with the highest oom_score. However, in my Linux system, the oom_score is not an accurate indicator. Instead, I would like to identify and terminate the process with the highest memory usage.

• find process with the largest oom_score

• find process with the largest rss

[rfjakob]

I'm curious how/when badness is not accurate.

In your screenshots it seems fine:

• gunicorn ... badness 1004, VmRSS 129 MiB
• java ........... badness 1040, VmRSS 3323 MiB

[RanHuang]

I'm curious how/when badness is not accurate.

In your screenshots it seems fine:

• gunicorn ... badness 1004, VmRSS 129 MiB
• java ........... badness 1040, VmRSS 3323 MiB

e.g: i want the process java... badness 73, VmRSS 2359MiB to be killed before gunicorn ... badness 1004, VmRSS 129 MiB

[RanHuang]

Problem: --avoid / --prefer don't work with --sort-by-rss

[RanHuang]

Is there any issue or concern regarding this request?

[rfjakob]

No, code is ok but I need to find time to test it manually

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[rfjakob]

Merged, thanks!