Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:05:28 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: OOM Test Case - Failed! |
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Stephen Tweedie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > > I am very unimpressed with the current OOM killer. After 10 days of online > > time, I decided to try compiling gcc again, the very culprit that killed my > > last system using 2.4.0-test8 Friday night (to which I was unable to reset > > the system until Monday morning). > > > > root 1099 63.6 61.5 71424 18740 pts/0 R 09:39 1:22 ./genattrtab > > The oom killer avoided killing your busy, large, root-owned > process. Don't run gcc compiles as root. Protecting root > processes is an explicit design goal here.
Also:
1) his system pretty much continued to run 2) since only httpd children got killed, no work was lost
(only the fact that he ran genattrtab as root screwed up things a bit and kept the system from killing the task -- but probably only just)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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