• ErrantRoleplayer
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    857 months ago

    I mean… sacrifice child is a whole new one to me! Clearly whoever programmed that in knew what they were doing.

    • @[email protected]
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      367 months ago

      Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?

      • @thallamabond
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        247 months ago

        /*

        • If any of p’s children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
        • the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
        • parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
        • still freeing memory. */
        • @[email protected]
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          87 months ago

          Nice. Imagine the lady in the post’s face when she learns that “oom badness” is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

          What’s that from?

          • genuineparts
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            7 months ago

            From the source file oom_kill.c in the linux kernel. But it seems this has been reworded or changed since 2019. That’s the commit that removed this.