Re: Andrea VM changes

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:51:55AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I spent way too long tweaking the OOM killer before I
> realized it was hopeless.
> The fact that incoming network traffic can be what causes the
> OOM condition makes it Really Hard to decide which app deserves
> the axe.

This may be a little off topic, but is there a way to manually select
this?  I can see having a mode where everything stops thrashing
for a while, in order to let the admin calmly kill off the offending
process, as a useful feature.

It would be useless in an environment where OOM is actually needed
(can't wait for a human admin to show up), but cool for those that
like to bring their machines back from the edge.

- Chris

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