Re: user defined OOM policies

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, JÃrn Engel wrote:

> One ancient option I sometime miss was this:
> 	- Kill the biggest process.
> 

That's what both the system and memcg oom killer currently do unless you 
change how "biggest process" is defined with /proc/pid/oom_score_adj.  The 
goal is the kill a single process with the highest rss to avoid having to 
kill many different processes.