>"run this daemon that tries to beat the kernel OOM to the punch"
Considering that the kernel OOM killer tends to be way too late in doing its thing I don't see how this is inelegant, maybe there's a reason you can't just have the kernel kill processes earlier in the face of memory pressure.
Considering that the kernel OOM killer tends to be way too late in doing its thing I don't see how this is inelegant, maybe there's a reason you can't just have the kernel kill processes earlier in the face of memory pressure.