Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:52:56 -0400 |
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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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