From: Eric Lammerts <eric@ally.lammerts.org>
To: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer killing all threads
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:52:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816095249.20144@ally.lammerts.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108132151110.31526-100000@ally.lammerts.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108152114520.13614-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108152114520.13614-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>; from dean gaudet on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:20:36PM -0700
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:20:36PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> > I recently had the following problem: Roxen (a webserver that uses
> > threads) was running out of control, eating up more and more memory.
>
> this would be a bug in roxen. for the corresponding code in apache, and
That wouldn't surprise me.
> roxen needs code to limit its own damage, i
> don't see why the kernel should do it...
Of course roxen needs to be fixed, but in the meantime I'd like to prevent
it from bringing the box down.
> hey -- is there a way to know when a task was OOM killed as opposed to
> other forms of death?
dmesg(8) ;-).
Eric
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2001-08-13 21:12 Eric Lammerts
2001-08-16 4:20 ` dean gaudet
2001-08-16 7:52 ` Eric Lammerts [this message]
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