Comment 11 for bug 1542002

The reason why the OOM killer never kicks in is because of recent changes in the browser (https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/webbrowser-app/trunk/revision/1361, released with version 0.23+16.04.20160223-0ubuntu1) which automatically unload background tabs when it thinks the system is running low on memory.

A situation where the OOM killer would do its job is with only one tab open, and many other apps open consuming memory, but in that case it’s likely that it would kill background apps first, not the oxide renderer process.