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From: bill4carson@gmail.com (bill4carson)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Query about Enhanced Out-Of-Memory handling
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:36:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE55A85.2040203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHnt0GUDrCbBOXgYfDbxCa5voL2GH_b7VJTF4p4hFVYa-wUCfA@mail.gmail.com>



On 2011?12?11? 14:38, Peter Teoh wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:24 AM, bill4carson <bill4carson@gmail.com 
> <mailto:bill4carson@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, all
>
>     Since there is a practical needs for user application with the ability
>     to sense kernel memory use pressure,
>     http://elinux.org/Memory_Management gives some approach on this as
>     below:
>
>     OOM notification in cgroups
>     mem_notify patches
>     Google cgroup OOM handler
>     Nokia OOM enhancements
>
>
> OOM by itself is for non-critical server, or hand-held devices where 
> physical memory is severely constrained. For server running database, 
> or any high end server, it is disastrous to have it turned on. Judge 
> for yourself the criticality of your applications and turn it on/off 
> if needs to:
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/141988/avoid-linux-out-of-memory-application-teardown
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-oom-killer-out-of-memory-and-nfs-server-optimization.html
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/49531/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/391222/
>
> For the latest development, read this:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2011-May/msg00000.html
>
> and the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and 
> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> has some development on OOM as well
>
>
>     AFAIK, it seems none of these have been merged into mainline or
>     updated
>     continuously,
>     I'm not so familiar with mm system, so may I ask which known
>     approach is
>     best to work with mainline kernel now?
>
>
Very informative, thanks :)


>
>     --
>     I am a slow learner
>     but I will keep trying to fight for my dreams!
>
>     --bill
>
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>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Peter Teoh

-- 
I am a slow learner
but I will keep trying to fight for my dreams!

--bill

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05  3:24 Query about Enhanced Out-Of-Memory handling bill4carson
2011-12-11  6:38 ` Peter Teoh
2011-12-12  1:36   ` bill4carson [this message]

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