Re: How to immunize a process from the OOM Killer

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Oct 29 2009 - 20:31:05 EST


On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:01:22 -0400
Juan Miscaro <jmiscaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I'm running 2.6.24 on Ubuntu.
>
> I've got a OOM Killer gone wild. I have plenty of free memory (over
> 40 GB) and lots of processes are being murdered. Anyway, I would like
> to first prevent a few processes from being killed in the hopes of
> buying me time (users can work) to discover why the killer is being
> invoked in the first place.

Could you show us your message log of OOM-Killer ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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