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death by swap

death by swap

Posted Nov 9, 2009 12:34 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)
In reply to: death by swap by michaeljt
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

You may want to look at Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt. Otherwise, it seems there is no way to enforce RSS limits. Rik van Riel wrote a patch a few years ago but it seems to have been dropped.

Personally, I would hate to think that my system spends valuable resources managing runaway processes. ;-)


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