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A suggestion

A suggestion

Posted Nov 14, 2009 20:52 UTC (Sat) by Gady (subscriber, #1141)
In reply to: A suggestion by jlmassir
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

Killing the child process if it uses more than 10% is kinda cruel. There are no rules against the child doing that. What should be done is that in this case the memory is allocated, and if that cannot be done, then the child is killed.


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A suggestion

Posted Nov 15, 2009 20:03 UTC (Sun) by jlmassir (guest, #48904) [Link]

Killing a child if there is no memory for a fork-exec is kinda cruel.

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