Messages in this thread |  | | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory? | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:32:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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> Every time a flamewar ensued and the patch didn't get merged. > (and no, I'm not going to submit it again, I have better things > to do with my time than getting into the next flamewar)
I don't want to start the next flamewar too, but I've tested your patch several weeks ago and it worked very well for me, i.e. neither netscape, nor xemacs nor X died during heavy mmap() and malloc() tests. I had also merged it with andrea's vm-global-2 and got good results (vm-global-2 seems smarter than the default kernel). anyway, since your oomkill patch only acts in desperate situations, I think it's a good thing because when an app must die, and it's better if we can choose which one.
BTW, it seems as andrea's vm-global-2 works well with lastests 2.2.17pre kernels containing marcello's fixes (couldn't get a kill yet, but if it happens, the oom killer should help).
Cheers,
Willy
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