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[$] Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF
Thursday August 17, 2023. 06:15 PM , from LWN.net
In its default configuration, the Linux kernel will allow processes to
allocate more memory than the system can actually provide; this policy enables better utilization of physical memory and works just fine — most of the time. On occasions, though, the kernel may find itself unable to provide memory that processes may think already belongs to them. If the situation gets bad enough, the only solution (short of rebooting) is to declare a sort of memory bankruptcy and write off some of the kernel's debts by killing one or more processes. Over the years, a great deal of effort has gone into heuristics to select the processes that the user is least likely to miss. This problem is still clearly not solved to everybody's satisfaction, though, so it was only a matter of time before somebody introduced a way to select the out-of-memory (OOM) victim using BPF.
https://lwn.net/Articles/941614/
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