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Toward a smarter OOM killer
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| The Linux memory management code does its
| best to ensure that memory will always be
| available when some part of the system needs
| it. That effort notwithstanding, it is still
| possible for a system to reach a point where
| no memory is available. At that point,
| things can grind to a painful halt, with the
| only possible solution (other than rebooting
| the system) being to kill off processes
| until a sufficient amount of memory is freed
| up. That grim task falls to the out-of-
| memory (OOM) killer. Anybody who has ever
| had the OOM killer unleashed on a system
| knows that it does not always pick the best
| processes to kill, so it is not surprising
| that making the OOM killer smarter is a
| recurring theme in Linux virtual memory
| development.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/359998/
Linus Torvalds - Time for a Nobel Peace Prize?
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| That list of Linux-related or -inspired
| developments is only partial. Here in the
| Northwest, for example, we could add the
| Free Geek operations in Portland, which do a
| lot of good for not only the low-income
| people and non-profit groups they are
| specifically aimed to help, but also almost
| everyone who comes into contact with them.
| The effects though have been world-wide, and
| are accelerating. And could grow faster with
| a little more attention.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2009/11/linus-torvalds-time-for-nobel-peace.html
Recent:
Three Economic Nobel Laureates In A Row Recognizing Power Of Infinite Goods
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| With the Nobel Prize in Economics being awarded to
| Elinor Ostrom (as well as Oliver Williamson) this
| year, plenty of people are noting that Ostrom's
| seminal work has to do with how the concept of
| "the tragedy of the commons" isn't really true in
| many cases, and how that "commons" can often self-
| regulate itself. And, Ostrom definitely recognizes
| how this applies to the "commons" that is the
| public domain. I didn't want to comment right away
| on this. While I've read Ostrom's work in the
| past, I wanted to revisit some of it, to refresh
| myself on it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091014/1453016535.shtml
I never won a Nobel Peace Prize.
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| I woke up on the morning of October 9th to
| find that President Obama had won the Nobel
| Peace Prize.
|
| There was a lot of discussion about whether
| President Obama had "earned" the honor or
| not, and a lot of discussion about how the
| Nobel Peace Prize is not always for what
| you have done, but encouraging you to keep
| going in what you are doing.
|
| As I read his acceptance speech, I thought
| about Free and Open Source Software, and
| applied parts of his speech to my favorite
| subject.
|
| "Let me be clear, I do not view it as a
| recognition of my own accomplishments"
|
| A lot of people have said to me, "Thank you
| for what you do for Free Software". I tell
| them that I was someone who was in a
| particular place at a particular time. I
| did what I thought needed doing, and what I
| had skills to do.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/I-never-won-a-Nobel-Peace-Prize
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