I don't know... Everytime I have an OOM it's been "my fault". Either because I wrote some code that allocated memory in a busy loop, or because I tried to compi

I don't know... Everytime I have an OOM it's been "my fault". Either because I wrote some code that allocated memory in a busy loop, or because I tried to compile something in a memory starved VM. I could totally see myself running out of memory trying to open /dev/sda in emacs or doing something stupid in elisp. So killing emacs makes a lot more sense than some innocent daemon.