From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:24:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040923122428.GA8816@thundrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409230857.57145.thomas@habets.pp.se>
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Salut,
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Thomas Habets wrote:
> Yup. What would be a good interface for setting that flag per-process?
> prctl()?
> Personally, I'd prefer it without userspace having to write code for it.
Well, either via a new syscall/ioctl, or via some exported file in
/proc or /sys. I guess the second approach (file) will be prefered.
> Also, it should be able to protect against a DoS where a user launches N
> un-OOM-killable processes.
You can still do that. Maybe kill those processes first who got less
criterias matching the OOM gracefulness, so you can protect httpd more
strongly than xlock.
Also remember to set per-user limits of processes. :)
> > What about programs with spaces in its names?
>
> I thought "screw 'em". :-)
Now that's what I call policy!
Tonnerre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 12:26 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 [this message]
2004-09-23 13:32 ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 23:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 13:19 ` Alan Cox
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
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2004-09-27 12:00 Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Jon Masters
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