How much swap?
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 25 19:58:49 UTC 2006
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I believe 2.4.0-2.4.10 may in fact have had such a requirement. Or at
That was probably it. I seem to recall there was one patch that was
uber-broken :)
I wrote:
>> [2] Out Of Memory killer. ROARRR!!!!
>
> Yes, randomly killing a process does not seem like the best move.
Yes and neither of the main alternatives (killing the process that was
denied the memory and killing the largest process) are much better.
Designing a good OOM killer is far harder than it first appears.
Rob
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