Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills

Andrew Morton
2004-11-19T00:13:43Z

Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for
> so much memory and logs via syslog:
> Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt)
>
> It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2,
> from my user's view.

We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003.
Weird.