On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 2:33 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 03.01.2020 22:27, Neal Gompa wrote:
> and servers...
Admins will be very happy when such user-space killer will kill for
example PgSQL database server and cause DB corruption or loss of banking
transactions.
This is already happening anyway. The idea is that earlyoom will just
do it slightly earlier so we have a responsive system when the
failures happen. Unlike a lot of the other options, earlyoom is just
doing what the kernel does, just slightly earlier so that the system
doesn't become unresponsive. That is *hugely* valuable for sysadmins
to be able to recover the systems without power cycling. As a sysadmin
myself, I *hate* power cycling servers because it takes forever and
its a lot bigger loss of productivity (and potentially money!).
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