alt Hacker NewsThe point is that the OOM killer shouldn't exist and arguing about how to tweak it is addressing the wrong problem
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hackyhacky • yesterday at 9:27 PM
I agree that that's the point he's making, but I don't see how that would work practically. His attitude is that malloc(1<<63) should immediately crash the system, every time? How is that better?
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But the second clause doesn't follow from the first!
I don't think Linux was plausibly going to remove the OOM killer in 2004 or later. So the right solution for Linux is very much to tweak it to be less painful.