Ingo Molnar wrote:

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > so dns helper is killed first, then netscape. (my idea might not
> > make sense though.)
>
> It makes some sense, but I don't think OOM is something that
> occurs often enough to care about it /that/ much...
i'm trying to handle Andrea's case, the init=/bin/bash manual-bootup case,
with 4MB RAM and no swap, where the admin tries to exec a 2MB process. I
think it's a legitimate concern - i cannot know in advance whether a
freshly started process would trigger an OOM or not.
Ingo
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Everybody seems to agreed that depending of the goal, we may kill interactive process or niced process. What
about a tunable OOM killer with a /proc/ file which would indicate which sort of process to kill ?

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