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    In some cultures, that is considered an honor Samantha! (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] ErrantRoleplayer@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I mean... sacrifice child is a whole new one to me! Clearly whoever programmed that in knew what they were doing.

    [–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah lol I'm familiar with "kill child" in a process management context, but I've never seen the word "sacrifice" come up. Is that a thing?

    [–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    /*

    • If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
    • the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
    • parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
    • still freeing memory. */
    [–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Nice. Imagine the lady in the post's face when she learns that "oom badness" is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

    What's that from?

    [–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    From the source file oom_kill.c in the linux kernel. But it seems this has been reworded or changed since 2019. That's the commit that removed this.

    [–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

    It sounds funny but it's not an uncommon phrase.