Re: VM nuisance

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:48:31 -0300 (BRST)


On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, David Ford wrote:

> Is there anything measurably useful in any -ac or -pre patches after
> 2.4.7 that helps or fixes the blasted out-of-memory-but-let's-go-fsck
> -ourselves-for-a-few-hours?

No. The problem is that whenever I change something to
the OOM killer I get flamed.

Both by the people for whom the OOM killer kicks in too
early and by the people for whom the OOM killer now doesn't
kick in.

I haven't got the faintest idea how to come up with an OOM
killer which does the right thing for everybody.

regards,

Rik

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