Re: OOM killer in 2.4.15pre1 still not 100% ok

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:24:08 +0100


vda wrote:

> Maybe I misunderstand something, but why OOM chose top? Is it how it is
> intended to work?

It is intended to do the least possible damage when killing
something. I'd say it does nicely when killing "top", you
surely don't loose much work that way. :-)

Helge Hafting
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