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From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@netdirect.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:22:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030831152246.A32685@netdirect.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F52199B.5020808@kegel.com>; from dank@kegel.com on Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:51:55AM -0700

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:51:55AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I spent way too long tweaking the OOM killer before I
> realized it was hopeless.
> The fact that incoming network traffic can be what causes the
> OOM condition makes it Really Hard to decide which app deserves
> the axe.

This may be a little off topic, but is there a way to manually select
this?  I can see having a mode where everything stops thrashing
for a while, in order to let the admin calmly kill off the offending
process, as a useful feature.

It would be useless in an environment where OOM is actually needed
(can't wait for a human admin to show up), but cool for those that
like to bring their machines back from the edge.

- Chris


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-31 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-31 15:51 Andrea VM changes 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 [this message]
2003-08-31 23:42   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 11:47     ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311353170.15412-100000@logos.cnet>
2003-09-01 17:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 17:50   ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <qL3q.1Pm.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <qQ37.2q0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-01  9:15   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-01  1:02 Dan Kegel
2003-09-01  6:03 ` Rik van Riel
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
2003-08-30 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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