How to Install and Uninstall earlyoom.x86_64 Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: September 19,2024

1. Install "earlyoom.x86_64" package

Please follow the steps below to install earlyoom.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install earlyoom.x86_64

2. Uninstall "earlyoom.x86_64" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall earlyoom.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:

$ sudo dnf remove earlyoom.x86_64 $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the earlyoom.x86_64 package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Available Packages
Name : earlyoom
Version : 1.6.2
Release : 1.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 34 k
Source : earlyoom-1.6.2-1.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Early OOM Daemon for Linux
URL : https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
License : MIT
Description : The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users.
: This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has
: absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop
: environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer
: before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what
: I think what it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait
: for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.