-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya 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. > Still I don't think it to be a good idea. Say on my server httpd is mission critical and samba in for fun. Now if OOM killer, under any circumstances, kills httpd (taking it as the random process) and retains the server's stability, it's still a bad implementation; may be. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCm1TH4Rhi6gTxMLwRAgLuAKCjOQrsQ2dm3PqK0Aa0Z4HVOg9JqACfUG3F CLnKRuUiqP9RSxm9vljv0d0= =aZWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
