Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:22:09AM -0500, Dave Jones (davej@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>  > Not one, but tasks which have the given string in the name. Like script
>  > names spawned at DoS time.
> 
> There is also the problem that process names aren't unique.
> If the process table contains two entries called 'Kenny', there's nothing
> that says they came from the same executable.

Agree, oom-killer will try to get theirs points and if they are really
different applications, the 'bad' one will be killed.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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