Re: Andrea VM changes

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > Jamie Lokier <jamie () shareable ! org> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe.
> > > I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd.
> >
> > I tried adding a hinting system that let the user
> > tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer.
> > Didn't help.   No matter how I tried to protect
> > important processes, there was always a case where
> > the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway.
>
>
> Indeed.  You can't have completely fool-proof heuristics.
>
> Then again, a heuristic is often better than killing
> syslogd at the first hint of trouble.

   Best heuristics:
   # echo '/usr/sbin/sshd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list
   # echo '/usr/sbin/httpd' >/proc/sys/vm/oom_exclude_list

   Works 100% ;-)))

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