On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
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.
Indeed. You can't have completely fool-proof heuristics.
Then again, a heuristic is often better than killing
syslogd at the first hint of trouble.