Performance enhancements

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote:
% are you sure about this? it's in the source codes? I suppose any normal
% kernel would suggest scream for help and halted if not gracefully
% shutting down the system. I suppose you were joking. :)

The memory manager uses an algorithm to decide which processes to kill
when it runs out of memory. It's called the OOM (Out Of Memory) killer.
I haven't been keeping up with kernel development the last couple of
months, so the OOM killer may have been replaced with something else.

% > All recent 2.4.x kernels consume physical memory before going to swap.
% > That said, completely disabling swap sounds like a recipe for disaster, as
% > the kernel will start randomly terminating processing that are fighting
% > for memory that doesn't exist.

Kurt
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