Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:35:47 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling |
| |
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:25:18 +0100 Vedran Furač <vedran.furac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > > > Am I missing something fundamental here ? > > Yes, the fact linux mm currently sucks. How else would you explain > possibility of killing random (often root owned) processes using a 5 > lines program started by an ordinary user?
If you don't want to run with overcommit you turn it off. At that point processes get memory allocations refused if they can overrun the theoretical limit, but you generally need more swap (it's one of the reasons why things like BSD historically have a '3 * memory' rule).
So sounds to me like a problem between the keyboard and screen (coupled with the fact far too few desktop vendors include tools to easily set this stuff up)
Alan -- 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/
|  |