Yesterday, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> enough. For another, most of the discussion of OOM I remember from
> when I was sub'ed to LKML dealt with programs and algorithms to
> actually fix OOM by killing processes with extreme prejudice, not
> warning me that it was going to have to do that shortly.
Incidentally, the kernel *still* does this. Rick Van Riel supposedly has
a better algorithm for determining what processes get killed, which AIU
will be incorporated soon. But still, better not to run out at all...
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