From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runaway process and oom-killer
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:10:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467008E9.7070902@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466FF154.7030905@aitel.hist.no>
Helge Hafting wrote:
> My guess:
> Something needs memory but finds there is none to be had
> oom-killer is invoked and targets myapp.
> myapp takes some time to die. Particularly, the memory it uses
> isn't freed up instantly.
Has anyone considered actually bumping up the priority of the task being
killed so that it gets to run and free up its resources in a timely manner?
We've done some experimenting with actually putting it in SCHED_RR and
it seems to help (in the case of other busy SCHED_RR tasks on the
system). Admittedly we have an older kernel, so behaviour may be
different now.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-13 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 8:49 Runaway process and oom-killer John Sigler
2007-06-13 9:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-06-13 9:20 ` John Sigler
2007-06-13 13:29 ` Helge Hafting
2007-06-13 15:10 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-06-13 15:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-06-14 10:01 ` John Sigler
2007-06-14 9:43 ` John Sigler
2007-06-14 12:56 ` Helge Hafting
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