Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:30:32 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory |
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, andreas wrote:
> I've got a basic question: > Would it be possible to kill only the process which consumes the most > memory in the last delta t?
> rsync is an actual example for the problem, I wrote. This could be any > other process, eating up the memory. Then, the kernel kills wildly some > processes until the right process is killed - and the machine is > probably unavailable meanwhile.
The problem is that 'rsync' might as well have been 'scientific calculation that ran for 3 days'.
One 'solution' could be to let the OOM killer ignore CPU usage of less than say 1 hour, but it'll always be heuristics that can go wrong in some scenario.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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