On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Jörn Engel wrote: > One ancient option I sometime miss was this: > - Kill the biggest process. >
That's what both the system and memcg oom killer currently do unless you change how "biggest process" is defined with /proc/pid/oom_score_adj. The goal is the kill a single process with the highest rss to avoid having to kill many different processes.
