oom_killer_enable(9)

💖 oom_killer_enable(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, the kernel API manual, we're doing this, we're literally reading kernel docs together and it's gonna be iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

oom_killer_enable — enable OOM killer 🗡️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void oom_killer_enable (void );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. none. zero. nada. it takes nothing, and honestly? respect. lowkey the most low-maintenance function in the whole tree 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

so like, if you wanna go deeper (and you do, i know you do 👀), the kernel file lives at ./mm/oom_kill.c and it's got the whole friend group in there:

• oom_cpuset_eligible(9)
• oom_badness(9)
• dump_tasks(9)
• mark_oom_victim(9)
• exit_oom_victim(9)
• oom_killer_disable(9)
• out_of_memory(9)

like ok oom_killer_disable(9) is literally right there as the evil twin, go say hi 🫶

🌈 that's the whole page bestie — tiny page, main character energy, no cap. go enable that OOM killer (or don't, i'm not your mom, i'm just your kernel-fluent bestie) 🔥

and that's a wrap!! brought to you by the ./mm source tree 🌸, version/date October 2026, filed under oom_killer_enable(9) — mwah, drink water, and may your memory never run out 💖🧚‍♀️🎀