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SubjectRe: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
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On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 15:41 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> The case of OOM killed sshd is fixable without touching the kernel:
> Make sure sshd is started from init, init will then restart sshd whenever
> it quits for some reason. This will get you your essential sshd back
> assuming the machine is still running and the OOM killer managed
> to free up some memory by killing some other processes.
>
> One might still wish for better OOM behaviour, but it is a case
> where something has to give.
>

Hey, are you kidding ?

2.4 lets me not in, because the fork of sshd fails. How do you fix this
with changing the userspace ?

2.6 oom is plain buggy

I have no problem to help myself, but I want to get this fixed in a
reliable way which meets the comment in oom_kill.c: "least surprise"

tglx


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