On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:53:56 -0700 Timothy Balcer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Huh.. per O'Reilly: > > "The kernel uses the SIGTERM signal to inform the target process that it > should stop." > > http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html?page=2 > > Is that out of date? The only time the OOM killer used TERM was when it was trying to kill a process with CAP_SYS_RAWIO set; for all normal processes, it used KILL. That was changed sometime early in the 2.6 series, and now appears to always use KILL. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
