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Subject: RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
From: "Timothy D. Witham" <wookie@osdl.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 15:44, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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.
>   


Right, you need to have a hold back for the kernel/root items to 
ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen.


> regards,
> 
> Rik
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