On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > 1) memory is exhausted
> > 2) the network driver can't allocate memory and
> > spits out a message
> > 3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed
> >
> > Clearly you want to be a bit smarter about which process to kill.
>
> Ill-implemented klogd/syslogd. Pre-allocating a little memory
> is one way to go, or drop messages until allocation
> becomes possible again. Then log a complaint about
> messages missing due to a temporary OOM.
No. This has absolutely nothing to do with it.
In this case, "allocating memory" simply means that klogd/syslogd
page faults on something it already allocated, say a piece of the
executable or a swapped-out buffer.
Simple page faults like this can also trigger an OOM-killing.
Rik
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