Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer

[Pedro]

I wrote:
> >   I deduce that a fail-safe application must scanf overcommit_memory,
> > warn the user and waitpid.

Alan Cox wrote:
> If you are building a fail safe system you need to look a bit beyond out
> of memory handling settings - power supplies, failover, fault tolerance
> requirements, error detection (eg ECC ram), raid arrays over
> non-electrically conductive links etc.

  If you lived here, you'ld be worried about seismic-electric impact on your 
HDD and data ;) So SIGKILL is not the hardest problem to be solved.

  Maybe it is time to write an avoidoomd.
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