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SubjectRE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
On 13 Sep 2002, Timothy D. Witham wrote:

> In this case the offense is asking for more memory. So it is the
> process that asks for more memory that goes away. Again sometimes it
> will be an innocent bystander but hopefully it will eventually be the
> process that is causing the problem.

If you kill the process that requests memory, the sequence often
goes as follows:

1) memory is exhausted

2) the network driver can't allocate memory and
spits out a message

3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed

Clearly you want to be a bit smarter about which process to kill.

regards,

Rik
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