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Message-ID: <20090112154456.GA27269@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:44:56 -0500 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:33:05PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > Do you want to own a tame killer? Do you want to control the world? > > Start with your computer now and own the planet next: you already have > an OOM-killer in the Linux to kill for you. But to date it was quite > berserk and usually killed not what you would like him to murder. > > Now you can add a name of the victims, which will be checked by the > oom-killer, who select the process to kill first among the ones which > have given string in their executable name. > > By default the process to be killed is called 'Kenny', and if you like > him, change then name by calling I realise it ruins the joke, and it sounds unlikely, but anyone who happens to have a process called 'Kenny' might be unpleasantly surprised by this. If we merge this feature, I think it should default to just using the existing heuristic. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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