Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death | Date | 8 May 1997 00:04:20 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.9705071343.AA14945@dcl.mit.edu>, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote: > From: Rik van Riel <Rik.vanRiel@phil.ruu.nl> > Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 15:24:43 +0200 (MET DST) > > I read this thread and linux does indead have this problem. > I also read the FreeBSD sourcecode, and saw a (somewhat) > elegant solution for this. If FreeBSD is out of memory, it > looks through the processes and kills off the largest one. > This should be doable in Linux too... > >The problem is that the largest process is often the X server. Often >this will indeed free a lot of memory, but it's not necessarily the best >thing to do...
Well, if the alternative comes down to either having a console session die because of a lack of memory or having everything, including that console session, come to a screeching stop as the kernel flails around looking for memory, I'd think that losing the X server die would be by far the better solution.
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