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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
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Subject: Re: oom killer and its superior braindamage in 2.4
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:27:51 +0100
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On Monday 24 February 2003 10:13, Mikael Starvik wrote:

Hi Mikael,

> Does everyone agree that killing a process is always the best approach
> to resolve an OOM? If the OOM is caused by e.g. a growing tmpfs or
> memory leaks in the kernel it won't help much to kill processes that
> may respawn.
Well, I don't agree that it's always the best approach. Other bad things, you 
metioned it, can happen.

> Would it be useful if it was possible to register another oom-handler?
> Some architectures could then choose to e.g. reboot the system instead.
I'd like to see _an option_ (read: not default but an option, e.g. boot 
parameter) that will reboot the machine after $specified_time if an OOM 
killing action does not stop.

ciao, Marc


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