Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills

Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-21T12:05:19Z

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 22:19 +0100, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> > It should only kill RNAsubopt and bash and touch nothing else.
>
> Yes, that's true, this patch has helped. Actually the other xterm got
> closed, but that's because bash is the controlling application of it.
> I believe that's expected.
>
> I'd prefer to get only RNAsubopt killed. ;)

Ok. To kill only RNAsubopt it might be neccecary to refine the criteria
in the whom to kill selection.

> And still, there weren't
> that many changes to memory management between 2.6.9-rc1 and 2.6.9-rc2. ;)
> I can test those VM changes separately, if someone would provide me with
> those changes split into 2 or 3 patchsets.

The oom trouble was definitly not invented there. The change between
2.6.9-rc1 and rc2 is justs triggering your special testcase.

Other testcases show the problems with earlier 2.6 kernels too.

tglx