From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Improving OOM killer
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:31:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203170127.GH19641@balbir.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B698CEE.5020806@redhat.com>
* Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> [2010-02-03 09:49:18]:
> On 02/01/2010 05:02 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>
> > In other words, use VmRSS for measuring memory usage instead of VmSize, and
> >remove child accumulating.
>
> I agree with removing the child accumulating code. That code can
> do a lot of harm with databases like postgresql, or cause the
> system's main service (eg. httpd) to be killed when a broken cgi
> script used up too much memory.
>
> IIRC the child accumulating code was introduced to deal with
> malicious code (fork bombs), but it makes things worse for the
> (much more common) situation of a system without malicious
> code simply running out of memory due to being very busy.
>
For fork bombs, we could do a number of children number test and have
a threshold before we consider a process and its children for
badness().
> I have no strong opinion on using RSS vs VmSize.
>
David commented and feels strongly about RSS and prefers VmSize.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-01 22:02 Improving OOM killer Lubos Lunak
2010-02-01 23:53 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-02 21:10 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-03 1:41 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 1:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-03 2:12 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 2:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-03 2:36 ` [patch] sysctl: clean up vm related variable declarations David Rientjes
2010-02-03 8:07 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-03 8:17 ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-03 22:54 ` Improving OOM killer Lubos Lunak
2010-02-04 0:00 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 7:50 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-03 9:40 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 8:57 ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-03 12:10 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-03 12:25 ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-03 15:00 ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-03 16:06 ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-03 21:22 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-03 14:49 ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-03 17:01 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2010-02-03 18:58 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 19:29 ` Frans Pop
2010-02-03 19:52 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 20:12 ` Frans Pop
2010-02-03 20:26 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-03 22:55 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-04 0:05 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-04 0:18 ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-04 21:48 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-04 22:06 ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-04 22:14 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10 20:54 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-10 21:10 ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-10 21:29 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-10 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2010-02-10 22:31 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 9:50 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-04 22:31 ` Frans Pop
2010-02-04 22:53 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-04 7:58 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-04 21:34 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10 20:54 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-10 21:09 ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-10 21:34 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-10 22:25 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 10:16 ` Lubos Lunak
2010-02-11 21:17 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-04 9:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-02-04 21:39 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-05 7:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-02-10 3:10 ` David Rientjes
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