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Taming the OOM killer

Taming the OOM killer

Posted Feb 12, 2009 20:33 UTC (Thu) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165)
Parent article: Taming the OOM killer

Talk about over-engineered. I hate these pseudo heuristic algorithms they keep stuffing into the scheduler or oom handler, because they always miss a bunch of corner cases. Forget "best", just make it simple and solid and UNDERSTANDABLE. Special mount for OOM conditions? Yikes!!


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