On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > This is bogus, anything can die in an OOM situation. Are you going to > > put all daemons into inittab?
> True, true. However, sysklogd and klogd are logging daemons. They deserve > some special treatment IMHO. > Actually, I am pondering doing such a thing to sshd on my remote systems, > too. I think it would be far better to have the logging daemons and ssh checked by the watchdog daemon. IMO it is not a good idea to restart the daemons when we are OOM anyway, since this might do real damage, a clean reboot would be better. > > You should be trying to avoid OOM situations in the first place. > That is not always possible, and sometimes a kernel VM screwup will cause > it, no? Hrm, I have 768 megs of swap, and watchdog is set up to reboot before OOM happens, which never did, so it is possible. In the case of a VM screwup, I'd like my box to reboot and send me a mail rather than let mysql die in the middle of a transaction and serve "database connection refused" pages to everyone until apache also dies. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
