From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041205152202.GA30536@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102253902.13353.344.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Andrea provided a quite good fix for the invokation problem. I'm just
> tracking down a different problem which was revieled by his changes.
>
> The selection mechanism is currently taking a couple of things into
> account:
>
> - VM size
> - nice value
> - CPU time
> - owner == root ?
> - CAP_SYS_RAWIO
>
> I found out, that it is neccecary to take the child processes into
> account to detect processes which fork a lot of childs.
>
> The current mechanism rather kills sshd or portmap as they happen to
> have a bigger VM size than the process which forked a lot of childs.
Taking childs into account looks fine to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-05 15:22 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
2004-12-05 13:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 15:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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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