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Its interesting how much stuff we have in Linux now to make OOM decisions (even userland daemons) yet on every modern distribution it still ends up killing your desktop environment instead of the fricking C++ compiler jobs that caused the problem in the first place.


    Out of memory: kill process 12345
    Killed process 12345 (sshd)
is the funniest and ugliest message to see on the iLO/VM console.




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