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Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense by amadvance on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:45AM (#10924057)
Google for Linux OOM Killer (Out Of Memory Killer).

It's really annoying, your application may get killed without any way to react, even to just print a "Low memory" error.

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Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense by feld on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:03PM (#10927665)
The entire concept of the Linux OOM Killer is asinine
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