Proposals

Dave Hansen

Dave Hansen

IBM

Biography

Dave has worked in IBM’s Linux Technology Center on the Linux Kernel since 2001. His work has included scalability improvements, memory hotplug, VFS enhancements and checkpoint/restart and containers.

Proposals for this user

* Out of Memory - Helping applications survive the axe or report the aftermath.

The Out of Memory (OOM) killer has consistently been a hotly debated topic in Linux. Why does it kill? What is being done to improve it? What do users really need it to do?
General 06/10/2009
Dave Hansen, Balbir Singh