> > IMHO the behaviour to react on out of memory condition should be to kill
> > the application that allocated most pages recently, and not randomly shoot at
> > well-behaving apps. And second, the system should send a signal first,
>
> Greeaatt idea. Can you cook up patch or something ? Andrea
> (andrea@suse.de) Rik (riel@nl.linux.org) and others tried really hard
> to make things better but so far no really acceptable (for Linus :-)
> solution was found AFAIK...
http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/patches/
Please, somebody grab the OOM patch, integrate it into
a new kernel and send it to Linus...
Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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