Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 12:45:29 EST


On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Would it hard to do some memory allocation statistics, so if some
> process at one point (as rsync did) goes crazy eating all memory, that
> would be detected?

No. What I doubt however is whether it would be worth it,
since most machines never run OOM.

regards,

Rik

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