On Tue, 2006-01-08 at 11:30 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

You can now disable the OOM killer on a per-process basis by

echo -17 > /proc/<pid>/oom_adj

nice to know ;-> At least you can protect some apps if you need to.
Only racoon and quagga are important for me.
But what happens then if you have a beast that just chews memory
forever? I suppose other poor apps will just get shot.

My plan was just to write a simple daemon that uses the genetlink API
that Shailabh (IBM) and company wrote and just restart the app if i see
it disappear. 

cheers,
jamal