> I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory" > key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't > help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.
For specific applications you can set resource limits, you can also set OOM priorities in current kernels to pick who dies. Finally you can disable overcommit and go for a rigid "no overcommit" policy where the system will fail any memory allocation which might lead to out of memory situations later. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/