On Jan 28, 2008 1:14 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:58:30PM -0800, Belinda Lawson wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the vserver decides which processes get killed off
> once
> > the rss hard limit is reached? And if so, what criteria does it use?
>
> the same decision process is used as on the host
> (actually it is the host's OOM killer reaping the
> processes), but you can provide a bias for each
> guest (in recent kernels) and being over the soft
> limit will increase the chances too
>From reading the documentation, I got the impression that nothing would be
killed until the hard limit was reached. Is that incorrect then? Is there
a chance that the OOM killer will become active if I am between the soft and
hard limits?
Thanks again,
-Belinda
Received on Tue Jan 29 00:05:02 2008