OOM
“An OOM killer for your brain at Thanksgiving. Working memory has 7 slots; dinner demands 47. When pressure hits critical we score every mental process — your cousin’s fiancé’s dog’s name gets the highest oom_score — and SIGKILLit before you thrash into the cranberry sauce. Enterprise: hierarchical cgroups so your ‘work self’ can’t starve your ‘remembers the kids’ names’ cgroup.”
The Problem
Miller (1956): the human brain holds 7 ± 2 items in working memory. Your mother-in-law: you should hold 47, and it is rudethat you don’t. You are thrashing. The system is up. Nothing is being done.
The Solution
A kernel process wired into your prefrontal cortex. It scores every mental process by oom_score: how much RAM it’s eating, times how little anyone will notice if it’s gone. Highest score wins. SIGKILL. No cleanup.
cgroups
Enterprise gets hierarchical memory limits. Your “work brain” cgroup can spike to 90% during a Q3 review without starving the “knows the kids’ teachers’ names” cgroup. No more calling Miss Linda “coach” at pickup because you were debugging staging.
Failure Modes
Business Model
oom_score_adj on kids, spouse, boss. Everything else is fair game.TAM
The Ask
$2.5M seed. 50% funds the bone-conduction chip that intercepts hippocampal writes. 30% funds the model that ranks memories by regret cost. 20% goes to a very good lawyer, because on some deep level this is a lobotomy. Series A pitch: “We’re Kubernetes for the parts of your mind you can’t schedule anymore.”