From: Pedro <linux_user@izecksohn.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:35:32 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704121135.32160.linux_user@izecksohn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412112545.GA28148@thunk.org>
On Thursday 12 April 2007 08:25, Theodore Tso wrote:
> likely going to be in deep trouble anyway. Even if you disable the
> OOM killer, now random malloc()'s will start returning NULL because
> your system doesn't have enough memory. Do you have intelligent error
> handling and recovery mechanisms for every single malloc() failure?
When malloc return NULL, the process may tell the user ENOMEM.
When OOM kill the process, the user claim the program sometimes die.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 5:23 tmpfs and the OOM killer Pedro
2007-04-11 19:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-11 21:05 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-11 22:27 ` Pedro
2007-04-11 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 5:19 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 9:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 15:08 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 11:25 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-12 14:35 ` Pedro [this message]
2007-04-12 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 20:56 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-12 21:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 8:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 8:19 ` Willy Tarreau
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2007-04-12 5:04 Al Boldi
2007-04-12 5:39 ` Pedro
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