Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

Alan Cox
2003-09-12T10:44:13Z

On Gwe, 2003-09-12 at 05:50, Robert Love wrote:
> But I think its a lot more useful if we have alternative overcommit
> modes to use with it.
>
> An oom_nop might be a good idea. But some different policies, i.e. ones
> with more determinism but less smarts, are interesting.

The overcommit is currently handled by the security layer. It is
possible the oom callback should at least in part go that way so
a security policy can for example kill only student tasks 8)