Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:53:55 +0100 (MET) |
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"A month of sundays ago James Sutherland wrote:" > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sean Hunter wrote: > > people keep ignoring? The in-kernel OOM killer is not (meant to be) a > > finely-honed user-customisable tool. Its a very effective thing when > > the memory state is completely dire. It should never run, and when it > > does, its the last-ditch defence and if it wasn't there your system > > would die anyway. > > Precisely - complaining that you would rather have your box die > uncontrollably, because you are sitting there holding its hand 24x7 to > watch the lights go out, is hardly productive. If you ARE monitoring it > closely enough to fix things, you would fix them long before the disaster > recovery OOM routine cuts in!
This is pure nonsense. You don't understand. I have _dozens_ of boxes.
They work fine without OOM (i.e. in 2.0.*). With OOM they murder themselves.
If Rik's patch gets rid of the current OOM behaviour, then I am all in favour of it. It cannot make things worse. But why not just get rid of it? Things worked fine in 2.0.*, as far as I can see. I didn't get cron and init being killed.
Peter
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