From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: oom killer gone nuts
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:57:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F02933.7040706@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120205204.GB11170@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
Andries Brouwer wrote:
> But let me stress that I also consider the earlier situation
> unacceptable. It is really bad to lose a few weeks of computation.
Shouldn't the application be backing up intermediate results to disk
periodically? Power outages do occur, as do bus faults, electrical
glitches, dead fans, etc.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 12:34 oom killer gone nuts Jens Axboe
2005-01-20 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 14:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-20 18:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 17:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-20 20:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 21:57 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-01-20 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:46 ` Jens Axboe
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