Re: [libvirt] (Dropping) OOM Handling in libvirt

This is a long mail about ENOMEM (OOM) handling in libvirt. The executive summary is that it is not worth the maint cost because: - this code will almost never run on Linux hosts - if it does run it will likely have bad behaviour silently dropping data or crashing the process - apps using libvirt often do so via a non-C language that aborts/exits the app on OOM regardless, or use other C libraries that abort - we can build a system that is more reliable when OOM happens by not catching OOM, instead simply letting apps exit, restart and carry on where they left off The long answer follows...