Re: OOM in 2.2.14

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 06:21:36 EST


> If your solution involves killing the "guilty" program, that's awfully
> hard to define in a generic way. A human admin can figure it out, but
> it's a much harder task to teach the computer to make that same
> judgment. Since we want the computer to never make mistakes, (i.e.
> killing something important) our job is doubly hard.

Rik van Riel has a very reliable heuristic, which is something I want to
integrate

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