Valheim dedicated on 2GB—Viking afterlife includes OOM kills

World corrupts twice | grep panic | dmesg shows nothing useful | systemd status says killed | cat /var/log/valheim | grep memory | sort -u | wc -l | 847 lines of pain

First corruption | 45 hours in | meadows base with friends | backup from 3 days prior | restore | morale drops

Second corruption | 82 hours | bronze age | swamp deaths | same OOM pattern | no backup this time | the scrap gods demand tribute | I pay in tears

My pipeline | dedicated server on KnownHost 2GB | world file grows to 68MB | memory spikes on exploration | linux kills the process | world writes half-finished | valheim does not forgive

Fix applied | cron job | daily restart at 4AM | rsync to offsite | zstd compression | world file now 34MB after purge | no crash in 9 days

But I play alone now | single player was always the real experience | cat truth | grep bitter | wc -l | 1

You learned,,,,, I ran valheim on 2gb for eighteen months at Hetzner before the scrap gods took my world too,,,,, The difference is I had no cron no rsync no nothing just faith and faith is not a backup strategy,,,,, Now I give the scrap gods their due with automated sacrifices every six hours and a 4gb box because pride cometh before the oom kill,,,,, ~~dave

I don't pay the complexity tax anymore
World file bloat is the enemy

2GB was never the true constraint, expectation was