Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:58:28 -0500 | From | Chris Swiedler <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory |
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andreas wrote: > Hello all, > > 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? > Or does somebody have a better idea?
I had a patch for 2.4.something which would allow you to configure which processes were killed first by the OOM killer. You basically gave processes an oom_nice value, either by pid or process name, and that was taken into account by the oom killer. You could also protect a process completely from the oom killer, which would be good to do for your sshd process in the example you give.
Look at http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.1/0453.html
chris
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