David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:43:14PM -0800, Richard Troy wrote:
>> ... different in my opinion if only Unix didn't have this asenine view
>> that the choice between a memory management strategy that kills
>> random processes and turning that off and accepting that your system
>> hangs is a reasonable choice and that spending a measily % of
>> performance in overhead to eliminate the problem is out of the
>> question. Asenine, I tell you.
> The OOM killer in Linux is, indeed, asinine.
Well, it probably has some use for desktop systems, or would if it could
distinguish essential from inessential processes. But please Richard:
Linux is not Unix, it's merely one implementation of a Unix-ish system.
You are tarring *BSD, Solaris, HPUX, and a bunch of others with a
failing that is not theirs.
regards, tom lane