VS code or in this case VS Codium crashes suddenly when I open a large project or repo.
Turns out, earlyOOM was killing it, since I didnt have swap, so memory was the only factor needed to trigger "out of memory".
Solution:
Enable swap, this guide could be of help.
If it continues to happen, you need to reduce the aggressiveness of earlyOOM or exclude the problematic app.
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I have zswap enabled, not zram.
Gotcha. If you have limited RAM and still need more than what Zram can offer, Zswap is probably the most sensible alternative, currently.