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Backdrift is a personal blog at backdrift.org about systems, programming and productivity. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “OOM Killer – How to Create OOM Exclusions in Linux”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Backdrift is a personal collection of notes, documentation, projects and ideas focused on open source technologies and hardware hacking. Recent Posts
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- /oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions-in-linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-06
- OOM Killer – How to Create OOM Exclusions in Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-12
What Hacker News says?
You can prevent a process from being killed by OOM killer: https://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusion...
Comment linking /oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions-in-linux
on “Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE”Submitted What Could Have Saved Dropbox? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is now a way to mark processes as OOM-killer exempt https://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusion... Part of the issue with processes stuck in D state (waiting for the kernel to do something) is that it is deeply tied into kernel assumptions about things like NFS, NFS is stateless, and theoretically severs can appear and disappear at will, and operations will keep working when it comes back. You…
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on “The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure”Submitted OOM Killer – How to Create OOM Exclusions in Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can set exclusions for the OOM killer to prevent this. See: http://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions...
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on “Stop using gzip”Submitted Time Management for Recovering Sysadmins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA really useful thing I use with ssh and netcat is to forward SSH connections through a bastion host like this - http://backdrift.org/transparent-proxy-with-ssh It looks like netcat can be substituted with the openssh 5.4 builtin.
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on “Netcat mode on OpenSSH”Submitted Coping with cloud downtime as a story · 1 points
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