Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:10:23 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Improving OOM killer |
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On 02/10/2010 03:54 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> Which however can mean that not killing this system daemon will be traded for > DoS-ing the whole system, if the daemon keeps spawning new children as soon > as the OOM killer frees up resources for them.
Killing the system daemon *is* a DoS.
It would stop eg. the database or the web server, which is generally the main task of systems that run a database or a web server.
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