On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Lord Apollyon wrote:
> Out of memory for nmbd.
> Out of memory for klogd.
> Out of memory for atalkd.
> Out of memory for checkups.
> Out of memory for powerd.
> Out of memory for rpc.mountd.
> Out of memory for rpc.nfsd.
> Out of memory for tiff2bin.
And all of this with tiff2bin being the obvious `guilty
party'...
> Now, my $64,000 question:
>
> Why didn't the system kill the process that was being the pig
> (tiff2bin)? It seemed to kill processes "early" in the process
> table to free up memory or something. powerd and checkups don't
> allocate memory once they've started up, so they didn't die
> because they were attempting to allocate memory and failed. And
> klogd! I've never seen klogd or syslogd ever die like this.
I have an (old) patch that does try to find the `guilty
party' and get rid of that, and only that. I'll soon move
house and have a test machine (at the office); then I'll
port the patch to 2.2.14 and 2.3.<new> and will fix the
last few bugs in it.
People without that patience are welcome to take a look at
my patches page, grab the (old) OOM killer patch and do the
obvious things (compiling, reading it, sending me comments,
etc)...
http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/patches/
cheers,
Rik
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