Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock

In response to a proposal for a sysctl to protect certain processes from being killed during out-of-memory (OOM) conditions, Andries Brouwer responds with an allegorical story about an airline that solectively ejects passengers to save fuel, criticizing the approach of designing systems around killing processes rather than addressing the root problem. The analogy suggests that implementing OOM exemptions for specific processes is a flawed solution comparable to the airline's problematic emergency mechanism, which malfunctions and ejects passengers even when unnecessary.