Re: OOM in 2.2.14

From: jmcmullan@linuxcare.com
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 17:43:37 EST


Warren Young <tangent@cyberport.com> wrote:
> Okay, what about Netscape's cache? What about named's cache? What
> about xmms decompression buffers? Does your measurement include those,
> or not? All are easily freeable on demand.

        Yes, and a daemon could send the appropriate signals to those
(and see if VM usage goes down) before going into 007 mode.

        (Hmm... 007 ... license to kill.... /usr/sbin/bondjamesbond ?)

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