From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:04:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030913220401.GA17528@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063476152.24473.30.camel@localhost>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:52:56PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:48, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > Also, when the OOM condition is triggered I'd like the system to
> > reboot, but first try for a short while to unmount filesystems cleanly.
> >
> > Any chance of those things?
>
> I like all of these ideas.
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that during a real OOM condition, we cannot
> allocate _any_ memory. None. Zilch.
>
So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory
it might ever need. Not impossible.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 2:19 [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12 4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:31 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:48 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 11:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 14:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:47 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:50 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 8:58 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 2:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-15 10:59 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 20:52 ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 22:04 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-09-14 0:55 ` Robert Love
2003-09-14 9:12 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-15 0:11 ` Mike S
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