On 02/10/2010 03:54 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
Which however can mean that not killing this system daemon will be traded for DoS-ing the whole system, if the daemon keeps spawning new children as soon as the OOM killer frees up resources for them.
Killing the system daemon *is* a DoS. It would stop eg. the database or the web server, which is generally the main task of systems that run a database or a web server. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>