Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:41:19 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11) |
| |
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:25:25 Jussi Laako wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > > > > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? > > Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going > wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always > able to stop it. User process should never be able to render whole system > unusable. >
That is just some issue that was discussed in this list recently. Look in the list for 'oom killer' subjects. There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working on it... (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted, which one to kill...)
-- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:jamagallon@able.es #> more beer
Linux werewolf 2.2.18-aa1 #1 SMP Mon Dec 11 21:26:28 CET 2000 i686
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |