Category Archives: Linux

New OOM killer implementation in Linux 2.6.36

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Kamil Kisiel

As reported on Kernel Newbies, there is almost a complete rewrite of the Out Of Memory (OOM) killer algorithm in the recently-release 2.6.36 kernel. The LWN article “Another OOM killer rewrite” has a detailed explanation of the changes. The addition … Continue reading →

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Bcfg2 Now in the Gentoo Tree

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Kamil Kisiel

Bcfg2 has finally hit the official Gentoo tree. For those who don’t know, it’s a configuration management system akin to Puppet or CFEngine. However, I think Bcfg2 has many advantages over these, the biggest of which being an active development … Continue reading →

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