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From: htmldeveloper@gmail.com (Peter Teoh)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Query about Enhanced Out-Of-Memory handling
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:38:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHnt0GUDrCbBOXgYfDbxCa5voL2GH_b7VJTF4p4hFVYa-wUCfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDC3975.8090300@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:24 AM, bill4carson <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?
>
>
>
> --
> I am a slow learner
> but I will keep trying to fight for my dreams!
>
> --bill
>
>
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-- 
Regards,
Peter Teoh
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2011-12-05  3:24 Query about Enhanced Out-Of-Memory handling bill4carson
2011-12-11  6:38 ` Peter Teoh [this message]
2011-12-12  1:36   ` bill4carson

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