linux-kernel - Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

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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

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