Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:40:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Derek Martin <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.2.14 OOM killer strikes. |
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> If the kernel does not kill some processes (or one process) when the > system is under OOM, probably all the system will lockup because there is > no memory and no more swap space left. Your chance to start a shell and > kill the memory hog is gone. > > Now _which_ process(es) the kernel should choose to kill is a different > issue.
Doesn't it make the most sense to kill the process that caused the OOM? That seems the most logical thing to me...
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