On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> ... at least one and I believe two or three people recently just chimed in
> with links to programs to do this... look at the kernel archives for the
> last two weeks or so, and search for OOM in the subject line (I think the
> thread was called "OOM killer strikes again" or some such nonsense).
Okay, that sounds like a plan. I'll check the archives again, now that I
have something to look for. (Previous searches just yielded lots of flamewars
about the algorithms to use and where in the system they should run. I just
don't want to commit the crime of perpetuating flame topics, on LKML least of
all.)
> One of these solutions was actually a daemon that allocated extra swap
> space from configured available disk space, and of course warned you that
> it was doing so. It would also un-allocate the swap when memory became
> less tight. You might want to have a look...
That might be useful, too. But mainly, I'm looking for the warning aspect
of it. I can and do take steps to prevent memory exhaustion. Just on
occasion, I lose track of how much memory Netscape has leaked away. ;-)
> Actually I think someone also mentioned that there existed such programs
> listed on Freshmeat. Freshmeat is your friend... :)
I tried browsing Freshmeat, but didn't find anything. (Their search
facility sucks, too, which doesn't help.)
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Incidentally, the kernel *still* does this.
Indeed! I've got the log message from the other day to prove it:
wildfire kernel: VM: killing process pine
I was just lucky it didn't pick "netscape" instead.
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