OOM_KILL

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Updated: 06 October 2005
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NAME

oom_kill - kill the ``best'' process when we run out of memory

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

void oom_kill ( void);

ARGUMENTS

void: no arguments

DESCRIPTION

If we run out of memory, we have the choice between either killing a random task (bad), letting the system crash (worse) OR try to be smart about which process to kill. Note that we don't have to be perfect here, we just have to be good.

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