"A month of sundays ago Rik van Riel wrote:"
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > > For the time being, though, the simple "kill the most likely suspect"
> > > patch should be a pretty good approximation.
> >
> > Nope. It isn't. It's unacceptable in practice.
> >
> > I run labs. The lab machines have to have defenses against
> > _themselves_.
> >
> > Even so, I get reports every couple of days from machines that
> > have obviously killed themselves.
>
> You don't run the OOM killer. You haven't tried it.
That's true. I run "standard" kernels, and they have _an_ OOM killer
that seems to be random! Whether it's _the_ OOM killer or not, I don't
know how to say.
> Yet you want to judge it without any knowledge about
> it...
I have heard only good things about _your_ OOM killer. It's simply
that I can't try it because the only viable test is on production
machines, and I can't run those as testbeds.
Peter
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