[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ broker's death by one cut: robustness problem

Lev Walkin vlm at lionet.info
Tue May 5 11:43:59 BST 2009


Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Lev Walkin wrote:
>> Better have erlang killed with OOM than box killed because of kernel
>> panic, or because sshd is killed (when OOM is disabled just for the beam
>> process) and you can never reach your machine again.
> 
> Perhaps ulimit can be of use here, to control the size of beam
> independently of the rest of the system?

This solves sshd killing, but does not solve inability to cope with
broken persister log when beam finally dies due to reaching ulimit.

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Lev Walkin
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