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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    [Linux-ha-dev] Re: [dm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.4.4
From:       Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb () suse ! de>
Date:       2005-04-25 9:23:13
Message-ID: 20050425092313.GD32085 () marowsky-bree ! de
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On 2005-04-25T00:26:58, christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr> wrote:

> Worth noting :
> 
...
> 	* the daemon sets /proc/self/oom_adj to -17, hence is 
> 	  protected from the oom killer. Watch out for leaks.
...

Is that something we might want to pick up for heartbeat's processes
too?

That would make us nearly immune to being accidentially killed by the
Out-of-memory heuristics of the Linux kernel.

(Though the SLES kernel will refuse to set oom_adj to below -16; so -17
seems to be the wrong value.)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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