Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262786AbTIAJOc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262784AbTIAJOc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:14:32 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.74]:22220 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262786AbTIAJO2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:14:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3F530E42.5010606@softhome.net> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:15:46 +0200 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes References:

In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1053 Lines: 32 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Dan Kegel wrote: > >>Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >>>I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe. >>>I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd. >> >>I tried adding a hinting system that let the user >>tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer. >>Didn't help. No matter how I tried to protect >>important processes, there was always a case where >>the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway. > > > Indeed. You can't have completely fool-proof heuristics. > > Then again, a heuristic is often better than killing > syslogd at the first hint of trouble. > Best heuristics: # echo '/usr/sbin/sshd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list # echo '/usr/sbin/httpd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list Works 100% ;-))) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/