Re: Andrea VM changes

[Dan Kegel]

Jamie Lokier <jamie () shareable ! org> wrote:
> I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe.
> I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd.

I tried adding a hinting system that let the user
tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer.
Didn't help.   No matter how I tried to protect
important processes, there was always a case where
the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway.

That was probably just a weakness in how I did the
hinting.  You might be able to do it with some sort of
'for god's sake never ever kill this process' tweak,
but before I tried that, I realized that making OOM
conditions halt the system was what I really wanted
for my users.

- Dan

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