Ticket #6515 (closed: wontfix)

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Property to stop OOM Killer from striking

Reported by: Stuart Campbell Owned by: Stuart Campbell
Priority: critical Milestone: Release 2.5
Component: Mantid Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Tester: Russell Taylor

Description

We have had complaints from users that the oom killer in the linux kernel is sometimes killing MantidPlot when they are using alot of memory.

I am going to introduce a property that can be set in order to override this behaviour.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by Stuart Campbell

  • Status changed from new to accepted

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by Stuart Campbell

This may not be as simple as first thought - if I can't get a solution by the end of the day - I will move to next iteration.

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by Stuart Campbell

  • Priority changed from blocker to critical

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by Stuart Campbell

  • Status changed from accepted to verify
  • Resolution set to wontfix

This is not a simple thing to resolve - a normal user cannot modify the appropriate required files in /proc.

comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by Russell Taylor

  • Status changed from verify to verifying
  • Tester set to Russell Taylor

comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by Russell Taylor

  • Status changed from verifying to closed

Agreed. It must surely be extremely rare anyway.

comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by Stuart Campbell

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​7361

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