Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 1999 09:53:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Memory hogs |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > Once you're completely out of memory, you're too late. We > > can simply start killing once we get very very near... > > That sounds much easier than it is. Once your "near", the machine is > swapping as if its life depends on it (which happens to be the case :-).
Reinforcing that we need to kill something (Richard, are you listening?).
> So you decide to shoot my xfig. It wants to save my work.
force_sig(SIGKILL) will usually do it's job quite well :)
It's been extensively tested and it's resemblance to a serial killer was negligable :)
> What I can immagine to work, is to change the system to > "single-user" mode quicly. Now every memory allocation will block > until we're out of the single-user mode. Only our selected program > is allowed to continue.
Sounds like a winning idea if my OOM killer turns out not to work good enough in all cases, but experience shows that already works quite well...
regards,
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