Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited | From | "Timothy D. Witham" <> | Date | 13 Sep 2002 16:12:14 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 15:44, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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. >
Right, you need to have a hold back for the kernel/root items to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen.
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