• @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.