Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:32:26 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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Benoit Garnier wrote: > > Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote : > > > But if you start > > to think you get the conclusion that process killing can't be avoided if > > you want the system keep running. > > What's the point in keeping the OS running if the applications are silently > killed? > > If your box is running for example a mail server, and it appears that > another process is juste eating the free memory, do you really want to kill > the mail server, just because it's the main process and consuming more > memory and CPU than others?
Yes bloody dumn, becouse I can then go no to the box, blacklist the smapper causing this with ipchains (or whatever it's called) and restart sendmail - WITHOUT DRIVING 1900km. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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