From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by e23smtp06.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1642Qrj024145 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:02:26 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m1646Cdj280194 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:06:13 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1642YJo010395 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:02:34 +1100 Message-ID: <47A930EC.9070009@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:30:44 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory References: <1202252561.24634.64.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com> <20080206105041.2717.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20080206105041.2717.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: David Rientjes , Jeff Davis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli List-ID: KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Hi > >>>> The interesting thing is the use of total_vm and not the RSS which is used as >>>> the basis by the OOM killer. I need to read/understand the code a bit more. >>> RSS makes more sense to me as well. >> Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this to the RSS. >> Specifically: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119977937126925 > > I agreed with you that RSS is better :) > > > > but.. > on many node numa, per zone rss is more better.. Do we have a per zone RSS per task? I don't remember seeing it. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org