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[Christopher Blizzard]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Ah, but I want OOM: I just need to be able to control what gets killed,
> possibly warning that application long enough in advance it could save
> its state for a later transparent restart...  The kernel has no insight
> into that sort of behavior.
> 			- Jim
> 

Right - you can get rid of obvious caches.  One process running out of 
memory doesn't help you tell other apps that they should try and free 
some so you can let that other process continue.

--CHris