Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:39:09 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200726093909.ee5e14e643d31da4dad5c804@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200726063256.GA22924@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <CAEJNuHxbFSPBB7keSrBufpg=RsgQ8EPK_fvzt8XBROLNKyN_sw@mail.gmail.com> <6318251A-973A-4DEC-9271-12333EB11F7B@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAEJNuHxC7i%2Bq7cq65=my6mJZDdiK4gpQsKjMU1nvsm=Ri4On%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <ce61b5e9-b71c-e5b7-c64d-f79884c87435@watters.ws> <20200725152412.GJ92589@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAGBxaX=Ktr-pqtT8FU37ajkYonVLYT_WhSenn23Tj5b=i0d-8g@mail.gmail.com> <20200725162403.GA4721@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAGBxaXmBZcCWqAZFR9OSyRGrqGFU%2BqCAZ8CfOi=0oXAmf-2=tA@mail.gmail.com> <20200725182554.deffc63058a7c9f6d343ef06@sohara.org> <04df312d-9b2b-1873-2117-79a49e089bd9@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200726063256.GA22924@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:32:56 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote: > FreeBSD freezes, then kills some innocent random processes like > local_unbound, then it may slowly recover. Sometimes it guesses > correctly and kills the offender (firefox most often). What else would you have it do ? Kill the largest process ? Kill the last process to call malloc ? There is no good response to OOM. The OS has no way to know which processes you care about most. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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