From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:26:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4578871C.2010309@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165519292.14110.2.camel@lappy>
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>The "oom-thresh" value maps to the max expected memory consumption for
>>that process. As long as a process uses less memory than the specified
>>threshold, then it is immune to the oom-killer.
>
> You would need to specify the measure of memory used by your process;
> see the (still not resolved) RSS debate.
Currently we simply use mm->total_vm, same as the oom killer.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-07 18:30 additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting? Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 18:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 21:25 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 21:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 21:57 ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-07 22:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-07 19:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-12-07 21:26 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2006-12-07 23:22 ` Alan
2006-12-07 23:21 ` Chris Friesen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-08 13:58 Al Boldi
2006-12-08 14:56 ` Alan
2006-12-08 15:19 ` Al Boldi
2006-12-08 15:55 ` Alan
2006-12-08 16:59 ` Al Boldi
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