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Taming the OOM killer

Taming the OOM killer

Posted Feb 6, 2009 8:58 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Taming the OOM killer by michaeljt
Parent article: Taming the OOM killer

it's actually far easier to deal with processes dieing then the entire machine effectivly locking up in a swap storm.

you probably already have tools in place to detect processes dieing and either restart them (if the memory preasure is temporary) or failover to another box (gracefully for all the other processes on the box)


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