[ILUG] Out of Memory

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

>  And it still annoys me that this happened on linux, from 1.3.70+ to
> 2.2.13. I could never understand such a whopping bug was in Linux for so
> long. 2.0.x's OOM handling was prolly worse than NT's.
> 

but how /do/ you handle OOM? you are totally out of memory, you can't
swap out processes cause swap is full, the kernel can't allocate memory
for net packets that are too big for static buffers..

everyone says but OOM doesn't happen to OS xyz, and they might be right,
but how these other OS's do it? do these OS's need lot's of swap for
example? Are these other os's perhaps very very anal about memory? And
are these other OS's perhaps a lot slower than linux?

> Kate
> 

-paul