> > Compile in the softdog driver and run the softdog daemon.
>
> That is a very good idea, but what if the OOM killer skips over the
> softdoc daemon like it did apache that one time?
You can make the softdog daemon check other stuff. Its common to make it
a script that checks the web server is responding and a few other things and
reboots cleanly if they are not - thus bringing the box down nicely. If it
gets killed or locks softdog kills the box hard
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