Re: Memory overcommit

["Vedran Furač" <vedran.furac@gmail.com>]

David Rientjes wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Vedran Furac wrote:
> 
>> But then you should rename OOM killer to TRIPK:
>> Totally Random Innocent Process Killer
>>
> 
> The randomness here is the order of the child list when the oom killer 
> selects a task, based on the badness score, and then tries to kill a child 
> with a different mm before the parent.
> 
> The problem you identified in http://pastebin.com/f3f9674a0, however, is a 
> forkbomb issue where the badness score should never have been so high for 
> kdeinit4 compared to "test".  That's directly proportional to adding the 
> scores of all disjoint child total_vm values into the badness score for 
> the parent and then killing the children instead.

Could you explain me why ntpd invoked oom killer? Its parent is init. Or
syslog-ng?

> That's the problem, not using total_vm as a baseline.  Replacing that with 
> rss is not going to solve the issue and reducing the user's ability to 
> specify a rough oom priority from userspace is simply not an option.

OK then, if you have a solution, I would be glad to test your patch. I
won't care much if you don't change total_vm as a baseline. Just make
random killing history.

Regards,

Vedran