Yes, to change that they would have to rewrite the operating system, and that would be a big mess as it's just normal tech terminology, father process, child, parent, etc
not surprises me AT ALL. I worked in several government institutions in 2 different countries as database engineer and everywhere it's a mess, to the degree you could not have believed it if you saw it. Noone is pressed to care for peoples money, private info, exam results, medical info
oom_kill.c, the OOM Killer, after such message is written in system log, checks children of the process identified and evaluates if possible to kill one of them in place of the process itself.
Here a comment extracted from source file explaining this:
/*
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
In computers, there is a construct known as a "tree." Think family tree, for an analogy. You have "parents" and "children" within the tree.
It's possible this is what the screen shot is showing. If you're out of memory, then you might have to kill the process, in which case you may lose data (child).
Probably because they ran out of memory. Basically the sacrifice child means that they have to cut off a sub program in order to keep the main program running.
It's ashame they can't change the wording because I guarantee someone is screaming SEE! THIS IS THE VAX ACTIVATION!!!
Can't help but think of the movie 'Snow Piercer' or the book 'The One Who Walks Away from Omelas'....summary: both depend on the sacrifice of children in order to maintain the elite's status quo/utopian society. Those who know these.....very creepy wording indeed.
I know we're all itching at the bit to see something done, but this is extremely misleading to sensationalize and blast out to the non-tech savvy. It's just a standard operating error message.
Tthat's the output of the OS
Sacrifice Child = child process to free up resources, the system crashed, there was not enough memory
This
It's just programming semantics.
Like "Master Bedroom"
Parent objects have children. Those children can have children.
The "Sacrifice" term isn't savory, but not inaccurate to what is going on under the hood.
This is a "meh, that's weird" moment rather than a bombshell secret message being leaked.
I love you computer guys. Thank you.
Yes, to change that they would have to rewrite the operating system, and that would be a big mess as it's just normal tech terminology, father process, child, parent, etc
just to give you an idea
http://www.it.uu.se/education/course/homepage/os/vt18/images/module-2/fork-details.png
not surprises me AT ALL. I worked in several government institutions in 2 different countries as database engineer and everywhere it's a mess, to the degree you could not have believed it if you saw it. Noone is pressed to care for peoples money, private info, exam results, medical info
I get what they are saying but seriously don't you think whoever started that could do better. Like maybe kill sub routines or something similar.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282155/what-is-the-out-of-memory-message-sacrifice-child
oom_kill.c, the OOM Killer, after such message is written in system log, checks children of the process identified and evaluates if possible to kill one of them in place of the process itself.
Here a comment extracted from source file explaining this:
/*
As a developer I can tell you that’s not what “sacrifice child” means. That’s funny af though that it says that on every Americans TV lmfao
Just to throw this out....
In computers, there is a construct known as a "tree." Think family tree, for an analogy. You have "parents" and "children" within the tree.
It's possible this is what the screen shot is showing. If you're out of memory, then you might have to kill the process, in which case you may lose data (child).
Just a WAG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_%28data_structure%29
Standard Canaanites/Molech IT Terminology /s
wtf I saw this somewhere on twitter too someone posted that
WTF!!!!!!
Red herring...
A point to notice here, it does NOT say "child sacrifice".... it says "sacrifice child". A big difference.
WTF?????! IS THIS JUST MORE HOPIUM OR IS THIS A C T U A L L Y FKING HAPPENING???
They didn't alert me, and the world needs more lerts. I'm in L.A.
Those links won’t open
Probably because they ran out of memory. Basically the sacrifice child means that they have to cut off a sub program in order to keep the main program running. It's ashame they can't change the wording because I guarantee someone is screaming SEE! THIS IS THE VAX ACTIVATION!!!
I copied that from a comment on twitter.
Can't help but think of the movie 'Snow Piercer' or the book 'The One Who Walks Away from Omelas'....summary: both depend on the sacrifice of children in order to maintain the elite's status quo/utopian society. Those who know these.....very creepy wording indeed.
I know we're all itching at the bit to see something done, but this is extremely misleading to sensationalize and blast out to the non-tech savvy. It's just a standard operating error message.