From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 372846B008A for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:47:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1292698fxm.11 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:47:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B642A40.1020709@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:46:56 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVkcmFuIEZ1cmHEjQ==?= Reply-To: vedran.furac@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling References: <20100129162137.79b2a6d4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100129163030.1109ce78@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <5a0e6098f900aa36993b2b7f2320f927.squirrel@webmail-b.css.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020707070908060404060701" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , minchan.kim@gmail.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020707070908060404060701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Rientjes wrote: > The oom killer has been doing this for years and I haven't noticed a huge > surge in complaints about it killing X specifically because of that code > in oom_kill_process(). Well you said it yourself, you won't see a surge because "oom killer has been doing this *for years*". So you'll have a more/less constant number of complains over the years. Just google for: linux, random, kill, memory; What provoked me to start this discussions is that every few months on our croatian linux newsgroup someone starts asking why is linux randomly killing his processes. And at the end of discussion a few, mostly aix/solaris sysadmins, conclude that linux is still a toy. Regards, Vedran -- http://vedranf.net | a8e7a7783ca0d460fee090cc584adc12 --------------020707070908060404060701 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="vedran_furac.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vedran_furac.vcf" YmVnaW46dmNhcmQNCmZuO3F1b3RlZC1wcmludGFibGU6VmVkcmFuIEZ1cmE9QzQ9OEQNCm47 cXVvdGVkLXByaW50YWJsZTpGdXJhPUM0PThEO1ZlZHJhbg0KYWRyOjs7Ozs7O0Nyb2F0aWEN CmVtYWlsO2ludGVybmV0OnZlZHJhbi5mdXJhY0BnbWFpbC5jb20NCngtbW96aWxsYS1odG1s OkZBTFNFDQp1cmw6aHR0cDovL3ZlZHJhbmYubmV0DQp2ZXJzaW9uOjIuMQ0KZW5kOnZjYXJk DQoNCg== --------------020707070908060404060701-- -- 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