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~~How the OOM Killer stops its victim process?~~

How does the OOM Killer stop its victim process?

The machine is short on memory and the [OOM Killer](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/concepts.html#oom-killer) has selected a target process to be shut down (in order to reclaim memory). **How does the OOM killer actually kill the process?** Is it done by one of the standard signals or perhaps it has some special tricks in its sleeve?

Suppose the machine is short on memory and the [OOM Killer](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/concepts.html#oom-killer) has selected a target process to shut down (in order to reclaim memory).
**How does the OOM killer actually kill the process?** Is it done using one of the standard signals, or does it perhaps have some special tricks up its sleeve?

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