On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What happens is some script/program has a bug and manages to consume
> > memory in a loop, fairly slowly over a time. Today it was a perl script, a
> > few months ago it was wml and I think I've seen rsync+ftpds do it too..
>
> It depends what limits you have set on it
You mean ulimit? That was eventually what I did for the WML stuff, this
perl thing is new.
> > Frankly, this sucks. I would much rather the kernel panic and reboot
> > itself than die like this, it takes days for someone to get on site and
> > restart the box by hand :<
>
> 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?
Thanks,
Jason
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