On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:03, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:47:27PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Nowhere does it use the process name to lessen the chances of killing a > > process. IMHO it would be a nice idea to have such a whitelist just in > > case. > > Extremely bad idea... All of a sudden every process somebody does not want > to be killed is called "syslog" or "named" or what ever.
True. > Let's face it folks: if the OOM killer hits you constantly you have > exhausted your resources. The solution is to buy new resources, not to > invent convoluted schemes to make a bad situatation last longer. There are other options. You could have a root-only syscall which says "don't kill me" to go with the root-only syscall for "don't page me out". -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page