Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 11:56 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

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> On 7/26/20 10:52 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:39:16 -0500
> > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> My understanding of Linux OOM killer lies along same lines though my
> >> understanding is much more simplified: kill minimal number of processes
> >> to recover maximum amount of resources.
> >
> >       Not always the right thing to do though.
> >
> >> Another speculative way to say
> >> it would be: process owning maximum amount of RAM that keeps allocating
> >> more RAM is first candidate.
> >
> >       What a pity if that is the heavy weight analytic program that has a
> > run time of several hours/days and is the only thing that matters running
> > on the system.
> >
>
> And yes, I agreed with your sentiments (or judgement): killing a process
> is a bad thing always. Agreed before writing any of my comments.
>

Then if you're out space why are you suggesting a potentially O(n!)-space
solution?


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org