From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030188AbXDKTh7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:37:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030197AbXDKTh7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:37:59 -0400 Received: from server2.meudns3.com ([74.52.31.50]:46704 "EHLO server2.meudns3.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030188AbXDKTh6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:37:58 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 51194 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:37:58 EDT From: Pedro To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: tmpfs and the OOM killer Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:23:31 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704110223.31291.linux_user@izecksohn.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server2.meudns3.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - izecksohn.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org After suffering some days from a not|mis configured tmpfs, As the OOM killer is not Posix, Better than to kill processes would be to resize tmpfs, to use tmpfs empty space. I'm using kernel 2.6.20.4. If someone ask I'll send a test application.