Stopping unwanted OOM killer experiences

Stopping unwanted OOM killer experiences

Posted Nov 27, 2004 16:56 UTC (Sat) by riel (subscriber, #3142)
In reply to: Stopping unwanted OOM killer experiences by tkreagan
Parent article: Stopping unwanted OOM killer experiences

Alternatively, you might not have spent enough time looking at the OpenBSD VM, which has its own share of special cases ;)

Every VM I've seen (and yes, I have looked at all the BSDs, XNU, Mach and others) are chock full of special case handling. Take a look at vm/vm_glue.c next time you're in FreeBSD land...

Yes, the swap token thrashing prevention code has a few corner cases, but it doesn't require anywhere near the number of magic constants that traditional Unix and BSD memory scheduling algorithms require.

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