Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init | From | Michael Peddemors <> | Date | 22 Mar 2001 17:31:57 -0800 |
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Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail doesn't seem to make much sense either..
> > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed
> > at any moment. I am not happy at all with my recent experiences. > > Really the whole oom_kill process seems bass-ackwards to me. I can't in my mind > logically justify annihilating large-VM processes that have been running for > days or weeks instead of just returning ENOMEM to a process that just started > up. > > We run Oracle on a development box here, and it's always the first to get the > axe (non-root process using 70-80 MB VM). Whenever someone's testing decides to > run away with memory, I usually spend the rest of the day getting intimate with > the backup files, since SIGKILLing random Oracle processes, as you might have > guessed, has a tendency to rape the entire database.
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