Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:01:11 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 08 February 2006 21:55, Paul Jackson wrote:
> If that argument justifies OOM killing on a simple UMA system, then > surely, for -some- critical tasks, it justifies it on a big NUMA system. > > Either OOM is useful in some cases or it is not.
I don't think you really want to open a full scale "is the oom killer needed" thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months.
But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty useless, can't we?
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