Re: 2.4.23-pre VM regression?

[Ken Moffat]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>
> sure. I think I already explained there are downsides in disabling the
> oom killer for desktops where the offender task is normally the biggest
> one too, but those downsides aren't something I care about given the
> cases it gets right w/o it (i.e. huge-shm-SGA/mlock/oomdeadlocks). the
> oom killer can do the wrong decision too sometime, and more
> systematically as well.
>

 Any chance of getting the oom killer back as an option ?  On
2.4.23-pre7 I made the mistake of trying to print a high-resolution
photo (300ppi, A4 size) using ghostscript while I was in X.  I've only
got 128MB memory and about 256MB swap on that box, which obviously
wasn't enough (gs typically uses up to 300MB for a 200ppi A4 picture).
Only problem was that X got killed instead of gs, which left the box
unuseable.  Last time I saw the oom killer in action it actually saved
me from having to reboot.

Ken
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