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SubjectRe: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
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On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:48, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Also, when the OOM condition is triggered I'd like the system to
> reboot, but first try for a short while to unmount filesystems cleanly.
>
> Any chance of those things?

I like all of these ideas.

One thing to keep in mind is that during a real OOM condition, we cannot
allocate _any_ memory. None. Zilch.

And that makes some things very hard. When we start getting into things
such as complicated policies that kill nonessential services first, et
cetera... there comes a time where a lot of communication is needed
(probably with user-space). Hard to do that with no memory.

I do like all of this, however, and want to see some different OOM
killers.

Robert Love


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