Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer

[Pedro]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 08:25, Theodore Tso wrote:
> likely going to be in deep trouble anyway.  Even if you disable the
> OOM killer, now random malloc()'s will start returning NULL because
> your system doesn't have enough memory.  Do you have intelligent error
> handling and recovery mechanisms for every single malloc() failure?

  When malloc return NULL, the process may tell the user ENOMEM.
  When OOM kill the process, the user claim the program sometimes die.
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