Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:29:47 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited |
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.
Ill-implemented klogd/syslogd. Pre-allocating a little memory is one way to go, or drop messages until allocation becomes possible again. Then log a complaint about messages missing due to a temporary OOM.
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