Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:10:02 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage |
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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Hmm, what about embedded boxes without swap ? There you have only one > choice. Kill anything appropriate.
I worked on a project that took the opposite approach from the "I'm a suspect" flag mentioned earlier. Processes could request immunity from the OOM killer as long as they were under a specified memory usage. Critical apps were thus protected as long as they were sane, while noncritical stuff could be killed at will.
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