From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>
Cc: Stephen Clouse <stephenc@theiqgroup.com>,
Patrick O'Rourke <orourke@missioncriticallinux.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:28:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010323122815.A6428@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103230403370.29682-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>; from Rik van Riel on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote:
>
> > Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail
> > doesn't seem to make much sense either..
>
> I won't defend the current OOM killing code.
>
> Instead, I'm asking everybody who's unhappy with the
> current code to come up with something better.
To a murderer: "Why did you kill that old lady?"
Reply: "I won't defend that deed, but who else should I have killed?"
Andries - getting more and more unhappy with OOM
Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2019 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1407 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1495 (emacs).
Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2800 (rpm).
[yes, that was rpm growing too large, taking a few emacs sessions]
[2.4.2]
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010323015358Z129164-406+3041@vger.kernel.org>
2001-03-23 7:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-23 11:28 ` Guest section DW [this message]
2001-03-23 14:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-23 15:13 ` General 2.4 impressions (was Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init) Jeff Garzik
2001-03-23 16:10 ` Adding just a pinch of icache/dcache pressure Jan Harkes
2001-03-23 16:17 ` Andi Kleen
2001-03-23 17:21 ` [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init Guest section DW
2001-03-23 20:18 ` Paul Jakma
2001-03-24 20:19 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-23 23:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-23 9:28 Heusden, Folkert van
[not found] <4605B269DB001E4299157DD1569079D2809930@EXCHANGE03.plaza.ds.adp.com>
2001-03-22 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-22 18:32 ` Christian Bodmer
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2001-03-22 11:08 Heusden, Folkert van
2001-03-21 22:54 Patrick O'Rourke
2001-03-21 23:11 ` Eli Carter
2001-03-21 23:40 ` Patrick O'Rourke
2001-03-21 23:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-22 8:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-22 9:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-22 19:29 ` Philipp Rumpf
2001-03-22 11:47 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-22 15:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-22 19:04 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-22 23:10 ` Jordi Polo
2001-03-22 16:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-22 20:28 ` Stephen Clouse
2001-03-22 21:01 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-03-22 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 22:00 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-22 22:12 ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-03-22 22:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 23:27 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-22 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-26 19:04 ` James Antill
2001-03-26 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-22 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23 20:09 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-23 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23 22:37 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-23 19:57 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-22 22:10 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-22 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 23:30 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-22 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 23:43 ` Stephen Clouse
2001-03-23 19:26 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-23 20:41 ` Paul Jakma
2001-03-23 21:58 ` george anzinger
2001-03-24 5:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-24 8:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-03-27 14:05 ` Scott F. Kaplan
2001-03-28 0:00 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-30 3:18 ` Scott F. Kaplan
2001-03-30 23:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-23 22:18 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-24 2:08 ` Paul Jakma
2001-03-23 1:31 ` Michael Peddemors
2002-03-23 0:33 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-22 23:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-23 1:21 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-23 0:20 ` Stephen Clouse
2002-03-23 1:30 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-23 1:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-23 10:48 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-23 14:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-23 16:43 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-24 5:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-25 16:35 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-23 17:26 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-03-23 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23 18:58 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-23 19:45 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-23 23:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-25 15:30 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-25 20:47 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-03-23 20:16 ` Jordi Polo
2001-03-24 0:03 ` Guest section DW
2001-03-24 7:52 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-22 14:53 ` Patrick O'Rourke
2001-03-22 19:24 ` Philipp Rumpf
2001-03-22 22:20 ` James A. Sutherland
2001-03-23 17:31 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-03-24 5:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-24 6:55 ` Juha Saarinen
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