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>"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.

Yes, please. I added a vote on AUR as well.

>and yet the defensiveness is so reflexively strong

It's hard not to get defensive because this reddit post is basically flamebait:

>use of words like sapping and deadend

>"there's little to no payoff for the rest of humanity"

Like you said we can probably discuss this question without getting defensive but it's impossible thanks to the way it's worded.

>The kernel is different from userspace projects - more difficult in some respects (we use a lot of very odd header files that pushes the boundary of what can be called "C"), but easier in many other respects (mainly in the sense that the kernel is fairly self-contained, and then doesn't rely on other projects for the final binary).

I'm interested in what Torvalds meant by these odd header files, does anyone know?

I don't know about you but to me what makes D2 so charming is its loot and character progression.

Sorry if my post sounds like a jab, it wasn't meant to be, thanks for your work and Merry Christmas.

This being an LTS release made me wonder: why do distros with long support cycle like RHEL not come with LTS kernel?