Re: [Lsf-pc] [RFC 0/2] opportunistic memory reclaim of a killed process

Rik van Riel
2019-04-11T11:51:54Z

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 561 bytes --]

On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 18:43 -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan via Lsf-pc wrote:
> The time to kill a process and free its memory can be critical when
> the
> killing was done to prevent memory shortages affecting system
> responsiveness.

The OOM killer is fickle, and often takes a fairly
long time to trigger. Speeding up what happens after
that seems like the wrong thing to optimize.

Have you considered using something like oomd to
proactively kill tasks when memory gets low, so
you do not have to wait for an OOM kill?

--
All Rights Reversed.

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 488 bytes --]