Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 00:53:11 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it normal that a user can take down the whole system by using too much memory? Message-ID: <20180603005311.5768a2d7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20180603004634.5865434d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <1527977770.2651378.1394286400.0806CC5C@webmail.messagingengine.com> <01EE7EEA-03AC-4D71-BA08-B0CEA97EE720@thehowies.com> <1527981931.2670335.1394316280.09410FC9@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180603004634.5865434d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 00:46:34 +0100 RW wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:25:31 -0400 > Brennan Vincent wrote: > > > > I'm also curious, however, to learn more from an OS design > > perspective. Why isn't it possible for the kernel to realize it > > should kill `eatmem` rather than make the system unusable? > > I did something similar a few years ago, and the process was reliably > killed. I should have added that that was without virtualization, or ZFS.
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