Re: Overcomittable memory

From: David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 17:30:13 EST


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jon Milton wrote:

>I think what's needed is a "kill on OOM" daemon that's more
>programmable. Default on, but with facillity to disable.
>Even better, make certain users untouchable, so that apps
>which really are mission critical carry on running, possible
>at the expense of the dross.

I'm working on a daemon that will have this functionality, and more... but
I still think it should work in conjunction with a smarter kernel OOM
killer.

Dave

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