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From: "Tvrtko A. Uršulin" <tvrtko@croadria.com>
To: "Yury V. Umanets" <umka@namesys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Guo, Min" <min.guo@intel.com>,
	cgl_discussion@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: About Replaceable OOM Killer
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403121115.12518.tvrtko@croadria.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078403388.3025.33.camel@firefly>

On Thursday 04 March 2004 13:29, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> IMHO problem with OOM killer is that it always will do wrong choice. So,
> it should be either plugin based or allow to configure it and this
> means, that it will become more complex and buggy. Does not it mean,
> that OOM killer should be moved to user space?
>
> How about to export OOM event to user space? It might be done in manner
> like hotplug script is used.

No, I don't think userspace is a good idea.

On the other hand... I have updated the MOOM patch in sync with 2.4.25, you 
can get it at http://linux.ursulin.net or from LKML.

Any comments, bug reports, etc are welcomed!

-- 
Best regards,
Tvrtko A. Uršulin, Linux admin 
--
Croadria Internet usluge <http://www.croadria.com>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-12 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-01  5:53 About Replaceable OOM Killer Guo, Min
2004-03-01 10:41 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2004-03-04 12:29   ` Yury V. Umanets
2004-03-08 11:02     ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-12 10:15     ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin [this message]

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