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> Linux kills random processes by design. And yet it’s the most popular server-side OS There's no reference for this in the article, and it caught my attention
by davnicwil 7y ago
> Linux kills random processes by design. And yet it’s the most popular server-side OS
There's no reference for this in the article, and it caught my attention - anyone have any idea what the author is talking about here? Never heard of this before
- cube00 7y agoIt could be referring to the out of memory (OOM) killer https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand016.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...
- qqii 7y agoThere has been some work on this in nohang[0]. > Customizing victim selection: impact on the badness of processes via matching their names, cgroups, exe realpathes, environs, cmdlines and euids with specified regular expressions; [0]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
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