Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-19 Thread Edjard Souza Mota
> > > If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most > > > userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the > > > runaway dhcpd grows larger than the web cache. It would have to be a > > > mlocked > > > RT task started from early userspace. It would be

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-18 Thread Edjard Souza Mota
Hi, > If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most > userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the > runaway dhcpd grows larger than the web cache. It would have to be a mlocked > RT task started from early userspace. It would be difficult to set

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-16 Thread Edjard Souza Mota
Hi, Thanks Alan... > > well looking into Alan's email again I think I answered thinking on > > the wrong side :-) that the suggestion was to switch off OOM > > altogether and be done with all the discussion... tsk tsk tsk too > > defensive and hasty I guess :-) > > Thats what mode 2 is all about