Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:16:00 +0000 | From | Carlos Morgado <> | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:33:16AM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > "A month of sundays ago Rik van Riel wrote:" > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > > > For the time being, though, the simple "kill the most likely suspect" > > > > patch should be a pretty good approximation. > > > > > > Nope. It isn't. It's unacceptable in practice. > > > > > > I run labs. The lab machines have to have defenses against > > > _themselves_. > > > > > > Even so, I get reports every couple of days from machines that > > > have obviously killed themselves. > > > > You don't run the OOM killer. You haven't tried it. > > That's true. I run "standard" kernels, and they have _an_ OOM killer > that seems to be random! Whether it's _the_ OOM killer or not, I don't > know how to say.
They don't. You're OOM, processes page fault and they die. That means syslogd, inetd, sshd and such. Eventually enough procs get destroyed and pages are recovered.
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