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SubjectRe: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler)
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote:

>
> Your making the deadly assumption that all applications behave themselves
> exactly the same all the time. Oops... netscape decided to freak out and
> take up all your memory... guess its the admins fault. Oops... some
> mod_perl script decided to freak out and an apache process decides to suck
> all of your CPU and MEM.
>

that's why you have per process limits set. Eg, PAM makes this
exceedingly easy with pam_limit.so -> edit /etc/security/limit.conf.

this prevents at least 90% of OOM situations (ie individual leaky
processes). eg netscape will then pop-up "can not allocate memory"
messages and stop rendering pages instead of crashing your system.

--paulj

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