On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i think the OOM algorithm should not kill processes that have > child-processes, it should first kill child-less 'leaves'. Killing a > process that has child processes likely results in unexpected behavior of > those child-processes. (and equals to effective killing of those > child-processes as well.) I disagree - if we start adding these kinds of heuristics to it, it wil just be a way for people to try to confuse the OOM code. Imagine some bad guy that does 15 fork()'s and then tries to OOM... Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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