Kernel space: Avoiding the OOM killer with mem_notify
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| Having applications that use up all the available memory can be a fairly
| painful experience. For Linux systems, it generally means a visit from the
| out-of-memory (OOM) killer, which will try to find processes to kill. As one
| would guess, coming up with rules governing which process to kill is
| challenging—someone, somewhere, will always be unhappy with a choice the OOM
| killer makes. Avoiding it altogether is the goal of the mem_notify patch.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/020508-kernel.html
Linux kernel is an invisible magician: Torvalds
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| "The kernel should be pretty much the invisible magician in the background --
| unless things go wrong and hopefully they don't," said Torvalds.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux-kernel-is-an-invisible-magician-Torvalds/0,130061733,339285746,00.htm
Related:
Is There Perfection in The Linux Kernel?
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| In a perfect world, you could compile a brand-new Linux kernel
| without the need for much configuration and without error.
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| According to Linus Torvalds, the new 2.6.19 Linux kernel is such
| an entity.
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| "It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels," Torvalds wrote in a
| Linux kernel mailing list posting announcing the new kernel.
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http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3646456
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