Re: Preventing OOM kills

On 05/24/11 5:50 PM, Andrej wrote:
> Add more RAM?  Look at tunables for other processes on
> the machine?  At the end of the day making the kernel shoot
> anything out of despair shouldn't be the done thing.

somehow, 'real' unix has neither a OOMkiller nor does it flat out die 
under heavy loads, it just degrades gracefully.  I've seen Solaris and 
AIX and BSD servers happily chugging along with load factors in the 
100s, significant portions of memory paging, etc, without completely 
crumbling to a halt.    Soimetimes I wonder why Linux even pretends to 
support virtual memory, as you sure don't want it to be paging.


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