Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2015 at 18:47, Neal Becker wrote: > Ian Malone wrote: > >> On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker wrote: >>> I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. >>> >>> A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the >>> memory, driving it into swapping

Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/01/2015 07:19 AM, Neal Becker wrote: I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory, driving it into swapping hell. I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On return I still

Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Neal Becker
Ian Malone wrote: > On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker wrote: >> I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. >> >> A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the >> memory, driving it into swapping hell. >> >> I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ss

Re: It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker wrote: > I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. > > A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory, > driving it into swapping hell. > > I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On

It's 2015, and OOM handling still sucks

2015-12-01 Thread Neal Becker
I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory, driving it into swapping hell. I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On return I still didn't have a prompt. Had to power cycle