On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

what do you think about the attached patch? It increases the effective
priority of a (kernel-) killed process, and initiates a reschedule, so
that it gets selected ASAP. (except if there are RT processes around.)
This should make OOM decisions 'visible' much more quickly.

Note that the OOM killer already has this code built-in,
but it may be a good idea to have SIGKILL delivery speeded
up for every SIGKILL ...

regards,

Rik
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