> > > Problem is that one's thing junk is other person's valuable thing.
> > ...
> > > Bottom line is that I don't belive any kind of AI in OMM will do the
> > > right job.
> >
> > It beats killing totally random stuff like we do now.
>
> > Can't you agree that the OOM killer, while not perfect,
> > is better than the random killing we currently have?
>
> Yes, but it still believe it remains a hack, not optimal solution.
> .. and as they say 'hack last longest' once they get in.
>
> I belive, ideally *user* should have some way to decide what should die.
How difficult would it be to extend the OOM grim-reaper to allow a
user configuration file, perhaps with specifiable kill-first processes
and kill-last processes? For example, one poster had stated that some
users might prefer that their httpd processes were given the greatest
tolerance, or another that his math crunching program be the omega.
Either (or both) could be specified through a configuration file that
allowed regular expression parsing, or parsing similar to the
hosts.allow file.
Billy
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