Another OOM killer rewrite
Another OOM killer rewrite
Posted Jun 10, 2010 11:15 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)Parent article: Another OOM killer rewrite
Naaargh! That implementation appears to still fail to consider shared memory, so it's *still* going to clobber poor innocent PostgreSQL backends instead of nailing the true culprits like Firefox.
Posted Jun 10, 2010 14:24 UTC (Thu)
by sean.hunter (guest, #7920)
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Another OOM killer rewrite
The way it's written it's trivial to wrap your postgresql startup in a shellscript that pokes /proc and thus makes the oom killer not whack it. This flexibility of local configuration is always going to be better than a bunch of in-kernel heuristics.