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In some cultures, that is considered an honor Samantha! (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago

Yeah lol I'm familiar with "kill child" in a process management context, but I've never seen the word "sacrifice" come up. Is that a thing?

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

/*

  • If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
  • the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
  • parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
  • still freeing memory. */
[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Nice. Imagine the lady in the post's face when she learns that "oom badness" is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

What's that from?

[-] genuineparts@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

From the source file oom_kill.c in the linux kernel. But it seems this has been reworded or changed since 2019. That's the commit that removed this.

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