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From: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:08:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06001fdabb77f774f0a1@[10.2.0.101]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F52199B.5020808@kegel.com>

At 8:51am -0700 8/31/03, Dan Kegel wrote:
>In the test-and-measurement system I'm developing,
>it turned out the sanest thing to do with OOM conditions
>was to consider them user errors, and to handle them
>by dumping memory usage info about processes and slab caches,
>then halt.  It's been very helpful because it turns flaky
>conditions into rock-solid failures.  Too bad this drastic
>approach isn't appropriate for general use.

Likewise in an HA environment, if you've got a standby node 
available, we prefer to fail over on an oom condition or (or an oops, 
for that matter) than to try to continue running in some randomly 
crippled way. The node in question can then reboot and return to 
service as a standby.

Ideally, we'd have a notifier that would be triggered for every 
unanticipated process kill (oom, oops, whatever).
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-31 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-31 15:51 Andrea VM changes Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 15:48 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-31 16:19   ` Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 19:08 ` Jonathan Lundell [this message]
2003-08-31 19:22 ` Chris Frey
2003-08-31 23:42   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 11:47     ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311353170.15412-100000@logos.cnet>
2003-09-01 17:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 17:50   ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <qL3q.1Pm.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <qQ37.2q0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-01  9:15   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-01  1:02 Dan Kegel
2003-09-01  6:03 ` Rik van Riel
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01  6:01 ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-01 15:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 15:50 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:21   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:19     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 23:30       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:57         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 14:10       ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 14:59         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:29           ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 15:59             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-15  5:16         ` Greg Stark
2003-09-15 10:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 11:50     ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-01 19:52       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-01 17:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 15:13 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 15:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 18:26   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 18:36     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 19:00   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 19:05     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-02 20:51       ` Marcelo Tosatti

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