Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >>> > > > If OOM killer kills off random processes, I'd say it to be the most shitty > piece of code. >
The idea behind OOM killer is that it is better of killing on or two of your processes (based on certain parameters) than having the whole server crash because the kernel has run out of memory. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/