Re: oom killer gone nuts

[Chris Friesen]

Andries Brouwer wrote:

> But let me stress that I also consider the earlier situation
> unacceptable. It is really bad to lose a few weeks of computation.

Shouldn't the application be backing up intermediate results to disk 
periodically?  Power outages do occur, as do bus faults, electrical 
glitches, dead fans, etc.

Chris
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