On 05/24/11 5:50 PM, Andrej wrote:
Add more RAM? Look at tunables for other processes on the machine? At the end of the day making the kernel shoot anything out of despair shouldn't be the done thing.
somehow, 'real' unix has neither a OOMkiller nor does it flat out die under heavy loads, it just degrades gracefully. I've seen Solaris and AIX and BSD servers happily chugging along with load factors in the 100s, significant portions of memory paging, etc, without completely crumbling to a halt. Soimetimes I wonder why Linux even pretends to support virtual memory, as you sure don't want it to be paging.
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