From: "Jon 'tex' Boone" <tex@delamancha.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:04:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38zgmpin8.fsf@amicus.delamancha.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (Rik van Riel's message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:55:42 -0300 (BRST)")
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
> ---------------------
> This means the OOM killer should be tuned, or more precisely,
> the code deciding when the OOM killer kicks in should be tuned.
>
> The code involved is very easy, so I'll explain it a bit and
> ask for volunteers to tweak the code and fix the OOM behaviour.
>
> The functions/places you may want to tweak are:
>
> mm/vmscan.c::kswapd()
> else if (out_of_memory()) {
> oom_kill()
>
> mm/oom_kill.c::out_of_memory()
Rik,
Should said volunteer(s) work with stock 2.4.8?
-tex
--
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Jon Allen Boone
tex@delamancha.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-14 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-13 17:47 VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8 Roy C. Bixler
2001-08-13 17:55 ` WANTED: " Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 19:04 ` Jon 'tex' Boone [this message]
2001-08-14 19:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 20:05 ` Petr Baudis
2001-08-14 20:27 ` Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-15 19:35 ` Colonel
2001-08-15 20:14 ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-08-15 20:51 ` David Ford
[not found] ` <9lelsk$bri$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-16 4:27 ` Colonel
2001-08-16 9:27 ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-14 19:13 ` Roy C. Bixler
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