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Not if it's not crashing at all and is just a fundamental difference between Android's memory management and what the Debian guest is expecting (which is no RAM management at all)

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>which is no RAM management at all

I'm sure the Android one is much more aggressive, but Linux's OOM killer isn't too different is it?

OOM is only triggered when you actually run out of virtual memory. With modern phones that shouldn't normally happen unless you're doing something silly like compiling a web browser.

oomkiller is triggered when requested pages can't be allocated

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