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

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:28:29 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Juan Miscaro <jmiscaro@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to immunize a process from the OOM Killer

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 ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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