linux-kernel - Re: How to immunize a process from the OOM Killer

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:26:56 -0400
From:	Juan Miscaro <jmiscaro@...il.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to immunize a process from the OOM Killer

2009/10/29 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:01:22 -0400
> Juan Miscaro <jmiscaro@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm running 2.6.24 on Ubuntu.
>>
>> I've got a OOM Killer gone wild.  I have plenty of free memory (over
>> 40 GB) and lots of processes are being murdered.  Anyway, I would like
>> to first prevent a few processes from being killed in the hopes of
>> buying me time (users can work) to discover why the killer is being
>> invoked in the first place.
>
> Could you show us your message log of OOM-Killer ?

Hi, by message log I guess you mean parts of the kern.log?  I've
attached a snippet of that log file that covers one process being
killed.  I have many others like this.

-- 
/jm

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