Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 08:59:32 EST


> +potential rouge process. F.ex. to make sure the process "Kenny" will be a
> +prime candidate to get killed:
> +
> + echo 15 > /proc/self/oom_adj
> + ./Kenny
> + echo -15 > /proc/self/oom_adj
> +

This is a bogus and silly example - but it does show why the whole thing
is not needed

(echo "15" >/proc/self/oom_adj; exec ./Kenny) &

See it's like nice, you can do it yourself anyway if you are
co-operating, and if you aren't co-operating you need containers anyway...

Alan
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