From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F530E42.5010606@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qQ37.2q0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> Indeed. You can't have completely fool-proof heuristics.
>
> Then again, a heuristic is often better than killing
> syslogd at the first hint of trouble.
>
Best heuristics:
# echo '/usr/sbin/sshd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list
# echo '/usr/sbin/httpd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list
Works 100% ;-)))
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-01 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <qQ37.2q0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-01 9:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311353170.15412-100000@logos.cnet>
2003-09-01 17:27 ` Andrea VM changes Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 1:02 Dan Kegel
2003-09-01 6:03 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 6:01 ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-01 15:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:51 Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 15:48 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-31 16:19 ` Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 19:08 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-08-31 19:22 ` Chris Frey
2003-08-31 23:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-30 15:50 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 23:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 14:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 14:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 15:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-15 5:16 ` Greg Stark
2003-09-15 10:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 11:50 ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-01 19:52 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-01 17:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 15:13 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 15:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 18:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 18:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 19:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-02 20:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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