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		cube00 on Jan 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Disenchantment (2018) It could be referring to the out of memory (OOM) killer https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

qqii on Jan 2, 2020 [–]

There has been some work on this in nohang[0].

> Customizing victim selection: impact on the badness of processes via matching their names, cgroups, exe realpathes, environs, cmdlines and euids with specified regular expressions;

[0]: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang

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