You probably just need to add more swap space on your system,
Any time the OOM killer fires, something's wrong with the

system, and it's more productive to deal with that than to

wish for a more accurate OOM killer; see http://lwn.net/Articles/111408/
When I was working at a company that used embedded Linux,

I eventually figured this out, and patched the kernel to panic on OOM

conditions; that gave users the right incentive to avoid

configuring jobs that caused the system to run out of memory.

- Dan

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