Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This page
> http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer
Egad. Whoever thought *this* was a good idea should be taken out
and shot:
The independent memory size of any child (except a kernel thread) is added
to the score:
/*
* Processes which fork a lot of child processes are likely
* a good choice. We add the vmsize of the childs if they
* have an own mm. This prevents forking servers to flood the
* machine with an endless amount of childs
*/
In other words, server daemons are preferentially killed, and the parent
will *always* get zapped in place of its child (since the child cannot
have a higher score). No wonder we have to turn off OOM kill.
regards, tom lane
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