Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbVATV76 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:59:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262083AbVATV6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:58:18 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:9706 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262081AbVATV5R (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:57:17 -0500 Message-ID: <41F02933.7040706@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:57:07 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries Brouwer CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: oom killer gone nuts References: <20050120123402.GA4782@suse.de> <20050120131556.GC10457@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050120171544.GN12647@dualathlon.random> <20050120205204.GB11170@pclin040.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050120205204.GB11170@pclin040.win.tue.nl> 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: 573 Lines: 15 Andries Brouwer wrote: > But let me stress that I also consider the earlier situation > unacceptable. It is really bad to lose a few weeks of computation. Shouldn't the application be backing up intermediate results to disk periodically? Power outages do occur, as do bus faults, electrical glitches, dead fans, etc. Chris - 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/