Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:24:08 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: OOM killer in 2.4.15pre1 still not 100% ok |
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vda wrote:
> Maybe I misunderstand something, but why OOM chose top? Is it how it is > intended to work?
It is intended to do the least possible damage when killing something. I'd say it does nicely when killing "top", you surely don't loose much work that way. :-)
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