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by man8alexd 28 days ago
Maybe you should skip running a useless child process and just use PSI to monitor memory pressure.
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zbentley 28 days ago
PSI polling is also good, but there’s no substitute for knowing for sure that the OOM killer is awake and hunting.
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man8alexd 27 days ago
You can't know when the OOM killer is awake and hunting. The kernel doesn't know that.
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zbentley 27 days ago
The approach I originally described provides a useful early warning system for that condition. It’s not perfect, but has proven useful and better than nothing many times.
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