Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 10:45:26 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:33:05PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Do you want to own a tame killer? Do you want to control the world?
>
> Start with your computer now and own the planet next: you already have
> an OOM-killer in the Linux to kill for you. But to date it was quite
> berserk and usually killed not what you would like him to murder.
>
> Now you can add a name of the victims, which will be checked by the
> oom-killer, who select the process to kill first among the ones which
> have given string in their executable name.
>
> By default the process to be killed is called 'Kenny', and if you like
> him, change then name by calling

I realise it ruins the joke, and it sounds unlikely, but anyone who
happens to have a process called 'Kenny' might be unpleasantly surprised
by this.

If we merge this feature, I think it should default to just using the
existing heuristic.

Dave

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