Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:02:28 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On 11-Sep-2002 Jim Sibley wrote: > > I have run into a situation in a multi-user Linux environment that when > > memory is exhausted, random things happen. [...] In a "well tuned" system, > > we are safe, but when the system accidentally (or deliberately) becomes > > "detuned", oom_kill is entered and arbitrarily kills a process. > > It's not difficult to make the kerner choose the right processes > to kill. It's impossible.
This assumes there is only 1 "good" process to kill. In reality there will often be a number of acceptable candidates, so we just need to identify one of those ;)
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