From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:52:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041205025236.GN2714@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041201104820.1.patchmail@tglx>
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, tglx@linutronix.de wrote:
> The oom killer has currently some strange effects when triggered.
> It gets invoked multiple times and the selection of the task to kill
> does not take processes into account which fork a lot of child processes.
> The patch solves this by
> - Preventing reentrancy
> - Checking for memory threshold before selection and kill.
> - Taking child processes into account when selecting the process to kill
Hmm, this thread seems to be serious. I'll audit the policy adjustments
for issues with the mechanisms (e.g. killing kernel threads, races with
timeouts).
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-05 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-01 9:49 [PATCH] oom killer (Core) tglx
2004-12-01 21:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-01 22:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-01 22:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 3:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 11:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 13:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 16:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 16:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 11:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-02 17:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 17:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 18:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 18:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 18:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 19:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 20:11 ` Andre Tomt
2004-12-03 22:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 23:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03 14:41 ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-03 21:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 21:14 ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-02 23:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03 2:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03 22:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 22:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 23:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 17:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 18:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 18:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 18:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-03 21:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 22:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05 2:52 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-12-05 13:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 15:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 16:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-10 17:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 17:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-12 0:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24 1:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-01 10:21 tvrtko.ursulin
2004-12-04 7:00 Voluspa
2004-12-04 8:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-04 12:42 Voluspa
2004-12-04 16:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-04 18:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-04 21:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 0:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05 14:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 15:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05 16:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 2:22 Voluspa
2004-12-05 8:32 Voluspa
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