Why wheezy/Jessie kernel does not kill the app. that takes too much RAM ?

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Subject: Why wheezy/Jessie kernel does not kill the app. that takes too much RAM ?
From: Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 14:11:38 +0700
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Good time of the day.


I have only 2 GB of RAM and a RAM-hungry app.s like chromium (just ~30
tabs) and game "BosWars" that do not run together unless hang my machine
completely.

The question is, Why the wheezy/Jessie kernel does not kill the app.
that takes too much RAM instead of letting the app.s to hang the OS
almost completely? -- For though after several minutes i can launch
kill  command i yet can not run it: i get allocation error. Nothing
remains but to reboot w/ reset button.

So?

Thanks for Your time.


Sthu.

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