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Not sure if your distro version has a new enough version of systemd, but newer versions have a systemd-oomd service for that. It may not be enabled by default. On older versions you could try early-oom which is not part of systemd. OOM stands for Out-Of-Memory.
I think that systemd oomd is pretty slow. I get a quite a few minutes of unresponsive system while waiting for oomd to do something. Honestly rebooting is faster than waiting for it to work.
I recently installed and enabled earlyoomd on fedora, and on an initial test, I still got an unresponsive system with the default settings, but after around 20 seconds or so, it killed the responsible process and I was able to continue working. Not perfect, but much better.