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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