I think 2.2.15 has some better OOM support, or there exists a patch for
it.. the other way is to slap process limits on the users who run the
processes, to make sure they can't consume all the memory ..
Dave.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Paul Mc Auley wrote:
> Does anybody know how to get Linux to behave in a sane manner if a non-uid 0
> process goes nuts and eats all the memory and then fails to die? I have been
> toying with the idea of writing a program which allocates 10M and then watches
> the free memory, killing stuff off and meeping loudly if it all becomes
> exhausted (or even activates an emergency swapfile).
> Paul
>>>
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