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DateThu, 12 Sep 2002 13:02:28 -0300 (BRT)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> On 11-Sep-2002 Jim Sibley wrote:> > I have run into a situation in a multi-user Linux environment that when
> > memory is exhausted, random things happen. [...] In a "well tuned" system,
> > we are safe, but when the system accidentally (or deliberately) becomes
> > "detuned", oom_kill is entered and arbitrarily kills  a  process.>> It's not difficult to make the kerner choose the right processes
> to kill. It's impossible.

This assumes there is only 1 "good" process to kill.  In reality
there will often be a number of acceptable candidates, so we just
need to identify one of those ;)

Rik
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