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How does the OOM killer decide which process to kill?
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description: How does the OpenVZ out-of-memory killer choose which process to kill? I would like to be able to set priorities on my process. For example, it would be acceptable to kill a PHP process, but not my Nginx web server process.
creator: bugmenot
date: 2010-10-13T02:44:49-00:00