> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>> When people talk about disabling the OOM killer, it doesn't stop the
>> SIGKILL behaviour,
>
> Yes it does, because the situation will never arise.
>
>> it just causes the kernel to return -ENOMEM for
>> malloc() much much earlier... (ie when you still actually have memory
>> available).
>
> Given the current price of disk, there is no sane reason not to have
> enough swap space configured to make this not-a-problem. The OOM kill
> mechanism was a reasonable solution for running systems that were not
> expected to be too reliable anyway on small hardware, but if you're
> trying to run a 24/7 server you're simply incompetent if you don't
> disable it.
And people say I have STRONG opinions. Don't hold back Tom, let us know
what you really think.