Re: Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM
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Msg-id CAM-w4HN=Z-hBEz8GcvQ1F-MWLnMCyRGMSrJBbNGGO4PsQo9Hew@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Some interesting news about Linux 3.12 OOM  (Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>)
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the
only option available.

Is this really a big deal? I would expect most faults to be user faults.

It's certainly a big deal that we need to ensure we can handle ENOMEM from syscalls and library functions we weren't expecting to return it. But I don't expect it to actually reduce the OOM killing sprees by much.


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greg

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