From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oom kill oddness.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:34:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929213411.GG22014@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451D7C02.2090907@redhat.com>
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:03:14PM -0400, Larry Woodman wrote:
> Dave, this has been a problem since the out_of_memory() function was
> changed
> between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11. Before this change out_of_memory() required
> multiple
> calls within 5 seconds before actually OOM killed a process. After the
> change(in 2.6.11)
> a single call to out_of_memory() results in OOM killing a process. The
> following patch
> allows the 2.6.18 system to run under much more memory pressure before
> it OOM kills.
Some of these tests do seem to be readded in Linus' current tree.
[PATCH] oom: don't kill current when another OOM in progress
went in earlier today for eg.
I'm curious why these checks were ever removed in the first place though.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 20:03 oom kill oddness Larry Woodman
2006-09-29 21:34 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2006-09-27 20:54 Dave Jones
2006-09-27 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2006-09-29 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-29 0:22 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-29 0:57 ` Roman Zippel
2006-09-29 1:39 ` Nick Piggin
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