Messages in this thread | | | From | Mulyadi Santosa <> | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:56:30 +0700 | Subject | Re: oom killer and long-waiting processes |
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Hi
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:17, Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have one question about oom killer: > If many processes dealing with network communications, > but due to bad network traffic, the processes have to wait > for a very long time. And meanwhile they may consume > some memeory separately for computation. The number > of such processes may be large.
Please refer to my article here : http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html
Right now, I can not recall entirely about the rules, but IIRC the processes that do I/O get lower "score". But that doesn't mean it won't be killed if free memory amount is really low...
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