Re: linux memory DOS

Rene Chaddock (renec@zorro.adsl.pangea.ca)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:25:59 -0500 (CDT)


Just for the record, my computer went down because it ran out of memory
today. I guess it killed a few things before it chanced on X (which killed
pico, which was what had used the remaining 15 megs..) , because logging
in again froze up the machine.. thats no good.

Rene

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > However, every time I proposed it on this list it has gone down
> > > > in a salvo of flames. And I have enough disk for swap now so I
> > > > don't really care enough any more to fight that kind of resistance
> > > > again.
> > >
> > > I'm all for it going into the main kernel tree, for what its worth.
> >
> > I don't think its the Right answer, but its certain a right
> > answer. Lets see if we can get the Beancounter work Andrey
> > Savochkin has been doing into 2.4.
>
> We probably want both in. The beancounter stuff can prevent
> a lot of DoS emergency situations and the program killer is
> able to get the machine back to work with minimal damage in
> the rare situations that it gets out of hand.
>
> Rik
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