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It can also lead to disaster on a web server when linux decides to OOM kill a critical part of the infrastructure like the database server or memcached. Then yo
by gizmo 11y ago
It can also lead to disaster on a web server when linux decides to OOM kill a critical part of the infrastructure like the database server or memcached. Then you can get a cascading problem of services failing, all because of a careless unzip statement. (I've been there.)
- phaemon 11y agoYou can set exclusions for the OOM killer to prevent this. See: http://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions-in-linux http://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusions...
- Spooky23 11y ago....or just use gzip and get 90% of the value minus the high probability that that setting will be fubar at an inconvenient time.