Re: VM nuisance

Dan Mann (daniel_b_mann@hotmail.com)
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:05:11 -0400


Rik Said:

> > No. The problem is that whenever I change something to
> > the OOM killer I get flamed.
> >
> > Both by the people for whom the OOM killer kicks in too
> > early and by the people for whom the OOM killer now doesn't
> > kick in.
> >
> > I haven't got the faintest idea how to come up with an OOM
> > killer which does the right thing for everybody.

Would there be a way that you could have a proc interface to adjust the
sensitivity of the OOM killer so that users could raise or lower the
threshold that causes OOM killer activation? Hopefully you wouldn't get any
flak for that unless users start blaming you for their own settings :-)

Most people would just use the standard setting that you provide...but
others that felt the need could change it on their system.

Dan
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