Re: oom killing

From: Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 17:31:25 EST


On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, ADAM Sulmicki wrote:

> Still, I don't like any for out of OOM killings, and it reminds me of
> AIX and Windows. If that's posssible, ideally I would like to have
> some proc interace to be able to diable oomk at boot time.

Buy more memory.

When the system is out of memory, everything that needs to
do an allocation hangs. For all intents and purposes this is
"as good" as a system hang.

regards,

Rik

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