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[$] Expedited memory reclaim from killed processes
Saturday April 13, 2019. 12:26 AM , from LWN.net
Running out of memory puts a Linux system into a difficult situation; in
the worst cases, there is often no way out other than killing one or more processes to reclaim their memory. This killing may be done by the kernel itself or, on systems like Android, by a user-space out-of-memory (OOM) killer process. Killing a process is almost certain to make somebody unhappy; the kernel should at least try to use that process's memory expeditiously so that, with luck, no other processes must die. That does not always happen, though, in current kernels. This patch set from Suren Baghdasaryan aims to improve the situation, but the solution that results in the end may take a different form.
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