From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBE956B0078 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:38:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B7320BF.2020800@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:10:23 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Improving OOM killer References: <201002012302.37380.l.lunak@suse.cz> <4B6B4500.3010603@redhat.com> <201002102154.43231.l.lunak@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <201002102154.43231.l.lunak@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Lubos Lunak Cc: David Rientjes , Balbir Singh , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , KOSAKI Motohiro , Nick Piggin , Jiri Kosina List-ID: 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. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org