From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:07:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114090747.GA22347@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6507.1231907037@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote:
> > I wonder how do you expect users to guess via libastral that even
> > adjusted score does not work, since it happens that task is so special,
> > that it can not be killed :)
>
> What does your patch do if one user has a process 'foo' that they're willing
> to have die first, and a process 'bar' that absolutely can't be killed..
>
> Meanwhile, another user has a 'must die first' process 'bar', and a 'must not
> die' process 'foo'.
>
> Methinks your patch needs libastral as well?
My patch needs an administrator to setup the name pattern.
Undocumented magic deeply hidden in the calculus of the badness() is quite different.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 15:33 Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 15:44 ` Dave Jones
2009-01-12 15:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-12 15:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 21:29 ` Chris Snook
2009-01-12 21:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 13:52 ` [why oom_adj does not work] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 15:00 ` Balbir Singh
2009-01-13 15:21 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 18:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 19:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 21:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 21:39 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 22:05 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 16:12 ` OOM documentation update [was: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!] Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 17:06 ` [take2] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 21:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-14 21:53 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-01-14 22:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 22:14 ` [take3] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-15 0:58 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-15 8:51 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-15 8:57 ` [take4] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-15 11:13 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-12 15:49 ` Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Alan Cox
2009-01-12 15:50 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 15:52 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-12 15:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 16:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-12 16:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 23:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-12 23:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 1:53 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 8:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 9:54 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 11:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 12:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 13:19 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-13 13:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-14 0:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 13:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 19:36 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 21:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 22:49 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-13 23:02 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 1:11 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 1:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 4:06 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-13 23:10 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 23:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:43 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 23:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:32 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-14 0:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 4:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-14 9:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-01-13 19:15 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-13 22:00 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 23:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 13:41 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2009-01-13 13:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-12 16:22 ` Dave Jones
2009-01-12 16:28 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 16:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-13 22:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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2009-01-13 10:58 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-01-13 12:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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2009-01-17 15:21 ` Bodo Eggert
2009-01-17 15:41 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-18 12:49 ` Bodo Eggert
2009-01-18 13:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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