How To Install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8. earlyoom is Early OOM Daemon for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8.

What is earlyoom

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install earlyoom.

Install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install earlyoom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install earlyoom

Install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install earlyoom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install earlyoom

How To Uninstall earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the earlyoom package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove earlyoom

earlyoom Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/default/earlyoom
/usr/bin/earlyoom
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/cba2ccf4f33493d5073009bdd2d8c9425eb25c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/earlyoom.service
/usr/share/doc/earlyoom
/usr/share/doc/earlyoom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/earlyoom
/usr/share/licenses/earlyoom/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/earlyoom.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install earlyoom on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.