• thallamabond@lemmy.world
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    /*

    • 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. */
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      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?

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        6 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.