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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:44:56 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
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On 13 Sep 2002, Timothy D. Witham wrote:

>   In this case the offense is asking for more memory.  So it is the
> process that asks for more memory that goes away.  Again sometimes it
> will be an innocent bystander but hopefully it will eventually be the
> process that is causing the problem.

If you kill the process that requests memory, the sequence often
goes as follows:

1) memory is exhausted

2) the network driver can't allocate memory and
   spits out a message

3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed

Clearly you want to be a bit smarter about which process to kill.

regards,

Rik
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