On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
You can't go too far into "OOM". When you are out of memory you are out. What do you expect it to do when OOM? It must be something which does not require the allocation of any more memory. There is no perfect solution. The current policy is to kill off the process which most recently tried to malloc as this is probably the one likely to be using up most of the memory.
I seem to recall this has something to do with how the systems allocate memory. I don't remember the useful information, sadly. I think it was Andrew that explained it to me, and hopefully he'll give us the quick version here. :)
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