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by Dylan16807 3108 days ago
> I'd rather have the server reboot than have some random process crash and leave the system in a potentially broken state.

Set the OOM killer to trigger a reboot? Crawling to a swapping halt is the worst of both worlds, it's like a full system crash but the server never comes back.
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AstralStorm 3108 days ago
Set overcommit policy and malloc would just fail, which is handled in mysql and would abort the query instead of invoking oom killer.

And a crashing service should get restarted, involving journal file recovery which is consistent state.

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Dylan16807 3108 days ago
> Set overcommit policy and malloc would just fail, which is handled in mysql and would abort the query instead of invoking oom killer.

So many things depend on so many gigabytes of overcommit, that seems like a pretty bad way to go about it in the general case.

> And a crashing service should get restarted, involving journal file recovery which is consistent state.

I think you're agreeing with me with this sentence?

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