[floatboth]

> FreeBSD solution to this, which is to not overcommit

Where did this myth come from? Did y'all just assume that the vm.overcommit sysctl actually makes sense and zero means "no overcommit"? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623919

But indeed, OOM killer kills the largest process, which makes more sense in most scenarios than Linux's "badness" scoring.

[PeCaN]

Huh, I had no idea it worked like that. That's bizarre.