Similarly, in the past I have wished for the ability to exempt a process from the oomkiller. I've run servers where the top memory user was also the server's en

Similarly, in the past I have wished for the ability to exempt a process from the oomkiller. I've run servers where the top memory user was also the server's entire reason for existence, and if that process gets killed the server may as well be down. It would literally have been better for any other process to get killed, but it was always the application process because of the memory usage.