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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Jamie Lokier <jamie () shareable ! org> wrote:
> > I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe.
> > I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd.
> 
> I tried adding a hinting system that let the user
> tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer.
> Didn't help.   No matter how I tried to protect
> important processes, there was always a case where
> the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway.

Indeed.  You can't have completely fool-proof heuristics.

Then again, a heuristic is often better than killing
syslogd at the first hint of trouble.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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