What is the policy on out-of-memory?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 22:43 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I should point out, the OOM handling in libdbus is primarily for the
> benefit of dbus-daemon. I don't know of a single app that's handling
> OOM properly even in theory; there may be some, but I'm skeptical they
> work in practice, at least for GUI apps. Most apps use dbus-glib and
> dbus-glib just applies glib's policy of exiting with error on most OOM
> situations.
> 
I'd like to think that Upstart handles OOM properly ;-)

Scott
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