Re: Some questions about linux kernel.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 09:27:36 EST


On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Indeed. There is always a way to fool any OOM killer.
> > The only thing that could save us here are proper
> > per-user resource limits,
>
> so isn't what should be concentrated on? Per user limits are a
> cleaner way of fixing the problem.

s/fixing/avoiding/
s/.$/ in a lot of cases./

> i guess though it's a 2.5 thing. Rik, do you know of anyone
> investigating per-user limits for 2.5? (a lot of linux users
> would like to see it.. hint hint..)

Some people are looking into this and if you remind them
they might even finish it :)

cheers,

Rik

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