Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:02:13 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Andrea VM changes |
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Jamie Lokier <jamie () shareable ! org> wrote: > I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe. > I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd.
I tried adding a hinting system that let the user tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer. Didn't help. No matter how I tried to protect important processes, there was always a case where the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway.
That was probably just a weakness in how I did the hinting. You might be able to do it with some sort of 'for god's sake never ever kill this process' tweak, but before I tried that, I realized that making OOM conditions halt the system was what I really wanted for my users.
- Dan
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