From: Eric Bergen Date: April 19 2010 8:40am Subject: Re: Recommended swap partition size List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221299 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Google oom_adj and oom_score. You can control which process is most likely to be killed. On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Eric Bergen wrote: >> >> Usually I prefer to have linux kill processes rather than excessively >> swapping. I've worked on machines before that have swapped so badly > > I guess you never had the OOM killer randomly shooting down your SSH daemon > on a machine hundred of miles away, then :-) > > > -- > Bier met grenadyn > Is als mosterd by den wyn > Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel > Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel > -- Eric Bergen eric.bergen@stripped http://www.ebergen.net