From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc4] Fix oom killer braindamage
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:20:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030527192044.GP8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305272104.05802.m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> attached patch fixes the oom killer braindamage where it tries to kill
> processes again and again and again w/o any ending or successfull killing of
> the selected processes in an OOM case.
> The attached, very simple but effective, patch fixes it.
> All the kudos go to Rik van Riel.
> Patch tested and works, and also for a long time in my tree (and maybe also
> others?!)
> This issue is out there for several years.
> Please consider it for 2.4.21-rc5, thanks.
> ciao, Marc
Also in 2.5.x for some time.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-27 19:05 [PATCH 2.4.21-rc4] Fix oom killer braindamage Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 19:18 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:28 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-28 22:14 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-27 19:31 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 19:46 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 19:20 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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