[Bug 18224] Breezy's OOM Killer kills innocent processes

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|critical                    |normal




------- Additional Comments From ben.collins at ubuntu.com  2005-10-21 14:00 UTC -------
I think there's tons of threads on this in the linux-kernel mailing list. From
what I recall, the OOM killer can't be expected to know which applications _you_
would rather it kill, and it always kills the application that failed to get
memory. That may seem random, but if you think about it, it has to kill the
application that caused the OOM. The other applications are happy running with
the memory they already have.

I'm not so sure this is a bug. Yes, I know that you have swap space available,
but under high memory contention, swap doesn't really help when there's nothing
that can be swapped out.

Changing severity, since for one, this is affecting you, and not a lot of
people. Secondly, for right now, I'm not considering it a bug. I'll need to
review this later. Right now I am preparing the dapper kernel.

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