Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail doesn't seem to make much sense either..
> > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed
> > at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences.
>
> Really the whole oom_kill process seems bass-ackwards to me. I can't in my mind
> logically justify annihilating large-VM processes that have been running for
> days or weeks instead of just returning ENOMEM to a process that just started
> up.
>
> We run Oracle on a development box here, and it's always the first to get the
> axe (non-root process using 70-80 MB VM). Whenever someone's testing decides to
> run away with memory, I usually spend the rest of the day getting intimate with
> the backup files, since SIGKILLing random Oracle processes, as you might have
> guessed, has a tendency to rape the entire database.
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