From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-rc5
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:01:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126020103.GD8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311251802400.6489-100000@logos.cnet>
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> Will 2.4.23 have the oom killer?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:06:31PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> No. Andrea removed the oom killer because it had problems (deadlocks, it
> can "guess" wrong in some cases).
> It seems that in most cases killing the allocator (what 2.4.23 does)
> works fine.
> Having it configurable might be desired.
Some of the bad behavior was due to races that disturbed the heuristics.
2.6 got those fixed and it made a large difference wrt. correcting its
bad behaviors. It's not infallible, but relatively well-behaved. (Not
that I could be arsed to debate whether that makes it worth keeping.)
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 11:42 Linux 2.4.23-rc5 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-25 13:34 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2003-11-25 19:04 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25 20:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-26 2:01 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
[not found] <VK1t.6TB.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-25 16:34 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
[not found] <VOyg.w9.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <VOyg.w9.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-25 17:07 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-11-26 9:18 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-25 17:15 ` Pascal Schmidt
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