From: Pedro <linux_user@izecksohn.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:08:57 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704121208.57807.linux_user@izecksohn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412104256.132cd21c@the-village.bc.nu>
I wrote:
> > I deduce that a fail-safe application must scanf overcommit_memory,
> > warn the user and waitpid.
Alan Cox wrote:
> If you are building a fail safe system you need to look a bit beyond out
> of memory handling settings - power supplies, failover, fault tolerance
> requirements, error detection (eg ECC ram), raid arrays over
> non-electrically conductive links etc.
If you lived here, you'ld be worried about seismic-electric impact on your
HDD and data ;) So SIGKILL is not the hardest problem to be solved.
Maybe it is time to write an avoidoomd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 5:23 tmpfs and the OOM killer Pedro
2007-04-11 19:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-11 21:05 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-11 22:27 ` Pedro
2007-04-11 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 5:19 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 9:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 15:08 ` Pedro [this message]
2007-04-12 11:25 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-12 14:35 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 20:56 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-12 21:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 8:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 8:19 ` Willy Tarreau
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2007-04-12 5:04 Al Boldi
2007-04-12 5:39 ` Pedro
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