alt Hacker NewsWindows will also prioritise to keep the desktop and current focussed application running smoothly, the Linux kernel has no idea what's currently focused or what not to kill, your desktop shell is up there on the menu in oom situations.
Windows will also prioritise to keep the desktop and current focussed application running smoothly, the Linux kernel has no idea what's currently focused or what not to kill, your desktop shell is up there on the menu in oom situations.
The same behavior exists as far back as NT4 Server, which does not provide a foreground priority boost by default.