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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Protecting processes from the OOM killer
Date: 28 Feb 2003 17:13:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smu82guz.fsf@code.and.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E5F8985.60606@kegel.com>

Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 01:21, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > Everything else is armwaving "works half the time" stuff. By the time
> > the OOM kicks in the game is already over.
> 
> Even with overcommit disallowed, the OOM killer is going to run
> when my users try to run too big a job, so I would still like
> the OOM killer to behave "well".

 If OOM is called you've overcommitted memory, so this isn't true
... no overcommit == NULL from malloc() etc.

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# James Antill -- james@and.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-28 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-28  1:21 Protecting processes from the OOM killer Dan Kegel
2003-02-28 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 14:19   ` Ville Herva
2003-02-28 15:37     ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 16:08   ` Dan Kegel
2003-02-28 22:13     ` James Antill [this message]
2003-03-03 14:45     ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-03 16:23       ` Alan Cox
2003-03-03 16:41       ` Dan Kegel

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