>Basically, the question is this: is it possible to develop a process manager that would do the job of oomkiller that has as high code quality as the Linux kern

>Basically, the question is this: is it possible to develop a process manager that would do the job of oomkiller that has as high code quality as the Linux kernel. I am guessing the answer is yes, so we will always be hitting cases 1 and 2, or at least we'd be hitting cases 3 and 4 with roughly the same frequency. You can't assume the people who would replace oomkiller with their own process manager are the same ones who could write it well.