From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:19:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096031971.9791.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040923234520.GA7303@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 00:45, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:23:08AM +0200, Thomas Habets wrote:
>
> > How about a sysctl that does "for the love of kbaek, don't ever kill these
> > processes when OOM. If nothing else can be killed, I'd rather you panic"?
>
> An aircraft company discovered that it was cheaper to fly its planes
> with less fuel on board. The planes would be lighter and use less fuel
Chuckle.
The rest of us just turn on "no overcommit" in /proc/sys. That way we
get told before takeoff that there isnt enough memory instead. Really
I'm astound that the default is still to pray you don't get thrown off
the plane.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-22 23:23 [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 0:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-23 0:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23 4:45 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 6:57 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 12:24 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 13:32 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 23:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 13:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-24 19:58 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-24 21:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-25 10:08 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 10:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 12:54 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-27 13:12 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-27 13:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 15:59 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 17:12 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 16:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 13:33 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-28 12:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 23:55 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 23:07 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29 0:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 14:07 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 22:57 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-25 16:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-27 12:00 Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Jon Masters
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