From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3F3D6B0047 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:17:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so3018830fxm.6 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:17:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B6477C7.70508@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:17:43 +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: <20100121145905.84a362bb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100122152332.750f50d9.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100125151503.49060e74.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126151202.75bd9347.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127085355.f5306e78.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126161952.ee267d1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127095812.d7493a8f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100128001636.2026a6bc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B622AEE.3080906@gmail.com> <20100129003547.521a1da9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B62327F.3010208@gmail.com> <20100129110321.564cb866@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B64272D.8020509@gmail.com> <20100130125917.600beb51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B646CBE.6050404@gmail.com> <20100130174516.2257d7fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100130174516.2257d7fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050309020409040608090004" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alan Cox Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , rientjes@google.com, 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. --------------050309020409040608090004 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alan Cox wrote: >> http://vedranf.net/tmp/oom.ogv (you can watch it using VLC for example) >> >> Actually anyone receiving this mail should see it. What do you think, >> what will customers rather choose if they see this? > > Address that to the distributions. Their customers. Systems I set up for > people always have no overcommit enabled. And distros say that's a bug in kernel. Result: nothing gets done and users will continue to swear at linux after it kills their work... -- http://vedranf.net | a8e7a7783ca0d460fee090cc584adc12 --------------050309020409040608090004 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== --------------050309020409040608090004-- -- 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