From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pedro <linux_user@izecksohn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:42:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412104256.132cd21c@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704120219.03171.linux_user@izecksohn.com>
> > 0 - try and spot obviously dumb allocations
> > 1 - anything goes
> > 2 - strictly control resource commit
>
> I deduce that a fail-safe application must scanf overcommit_memory, warn
> the user and waitpid.
If you are building a fail safe system you need to look a bit beyond out
of memory handling settings - power supplies, failover, fault tolerance
requirements, error detection (eg ECC ram), raid arrays over
non-electrically conductive links etc.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 5:23 Pedro
2007-04-11 19:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-11 21:05 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-11 22:27 ` Pedro
2007-04-11 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 5:19 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 9:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-04-12 15:08 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 11:25 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-12 14:35 ` Pedro
2007-04-12 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 20:56 ` Mouawad, Tony
2007-04-12 21:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 8:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 8:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-12 5:04 Al Boldi
2007-04-12 5:39 ` Pedro
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