Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756283Ab0BJVLO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64384 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957Ab0BJVLN (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7320BF.2020800@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:10:23 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lubos Lunak CC: David Rientjes , Balbir Singh , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , KOSAKI Motohiro , Nick Piggin , Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: Improving OOM killer References: <201002012302.37380.l.lunak@suse.cz> <4B6B4500.3010603@redhat.com> <201002102154.43231.l.lunak@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <201002102154.43231.l.lunak@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 19 On 02/10/2010 03:54 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: > Which however can mean that not killing this system daemon will be traded for > DoS-ing the whole system, if the daemon keeps spawning new children as soon > as the OOM killer frees up resources for them. Killing the system daemon *is* a DoS. It would stop eg. the database or the web server, which is generally the main task of systems that run a database or a web server. -- All rights reversed. -- 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/