On 09/09/14 19:42, Bzzzz wrote:
Normally, if you _really_ reach the system RAM limit, init begins killing the least used programs/daemons (well, this WAS true with a good init, such as the sysV one…)
First, the OOM Killer is part of the kernel, not part of the init system. Second, it doesn't start killing processes until you run out of RAM *and swap*.