Performance enhancements

Douglas J Hunley doug
Mon May 17 11:42:23 PDT 2004


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kwall at kurtwerks.com spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> 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.

the OOM is still there. constantly being tweaked too. still a nightmare when 
it kicks in

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