From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kong Wei <weikong@redflag-linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mm] limit the min_free_kbytes
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:46:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521104643.3c7165ce@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211362481-2136-1-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com>
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:41 +0800
Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> wrote:
> From: Kong Wei <weikong@redflag-linux.com>
>
> Unlimited of min_free_kbytes is dangerous,
> An user of our company set this value bigger than 3584*1024*K,
> cause the system OOM on DMA.
You need to be root to set this value, and as root you could equally just
type "halt", run a real time process in a tight loop or reformat the hard
disk.
NAK this patch
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kong Wei <weikong@redflag-linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mm] limit the min_free_kbytes
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:46:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521104643.3c7165ce@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211362481-2136-1-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com>
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:41 +0800
Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> wrote:
> From: Kong Wei <weikong@redflag-linux.com>
>
> Unlimited of min_free_kbytes is dangerous,
> An user of our company set this value bigger than 3584*1024*K,
> cause the system OOM on DMA.
You need to be root to set this value, and as root you could equally just
type "halt", run a real time process in a tight loop or reformat the hard
disk.
NAK this patch
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 9:34 [PATCH] [mm] limit the min_free_kbytes Li Yang
2008-05-21 9:34 ` Li Yang, Kong Wei
2008-05-21 9:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-21 9:46 ` Alan Cox
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