From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: oom killer gone nuts
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:27:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120232721.GP12647@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F02933.7040706@nortelnetworks.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:57:07PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> >But let me stress that I also consider the earlier situation
> >unacceptable. It is really bad to lose a few weeks of computation.
>
> Shouldn't the application be backing up intermediate results to disk
> periodically? Power outages do occur, as do bus faults, electrical
> glitches, dead fans, etc.
Agreed. Plus if you truly cannot change the app because it's binary only
at least you can set the ulimit based on the virtual sizes, ulimit
should work reliably even if overcommit doesn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 12:34 Jens Axboe
2005-01-20 13:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 14:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-20 18:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 17:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-20 20:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-20 21:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-20 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2005-01-21 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-21 8:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 8:46 ` Jens Axboe
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