Paul J Collins said:
> PJ> what annoys me the most is how people whine about this on
> PJ> linux-kernel, when there exists a mechanism in linux to help
> PJ> avoid hitting OOM (and the attendent kernel mm/oom_kill.c) ->
> PJ> per process limits - and they don't bother setting it up.
Yeah. I don't get why the distro makers don't set a default ulimit of
something like (total_ram * .75); this would avoid 99% of the OOM
situations for most users. If it was documented, I can't see it being a
problem.
--j.
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