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From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jamie@shareable.org
Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:02:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F529A95.4030509@kegel.com> (raw)

Jamie Lokier <jamie () shareable ! org> wrote:
> I'd love to be able to select which app _doesn't_ deserve the axe.
> I.e. not sshd, and then not httpd.

I tried adding a hinting system that let the user
tweak the badness calculated by the OOM killer.
Didn't help.   No matter how I tried to protect
important processes, there was always a case where
the OOM killer ended up killing them anyway.

That was probably just a weakness in how I did the
hinting.  You might be able to do it with some sort of
'for god's sake never ever kill this process' tweak,
but before I tried that, I realized that making OOM
conditions halt the system was what I really wanted
for my users.

- Dan

-- 
Dan Kegel
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-01  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-01  1:02 Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-09-01  6:03 ` Andrea VM changes Rik van Riel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311353170.15412-100000@logos.cnet>
2003-09-01 17:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 17:50   ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <qL3q.1Pm.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <qQ37.2q0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-01  9:15   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 17:34 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-31 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01  6:01 ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-01 15:54   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:51 Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 15:48 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-31 16:19   ` Dan Kegel
2003-08-31 19:08 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-08-31 19:22 ` Chris Frey
2003-08-31 23:42   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 11:47     ` Alan Cox
2003-08-30 15:50 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 19:21   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:19     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 23:30       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 23:57         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 14:10       ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 14:59         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:29           ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 15:59             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-15  5:16         ` Greg Stark
2003-09-15 10:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 11:50     ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-01 19:52       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-01 17:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-30 15:13 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-30 15:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 18:26   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 18:36     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 19:00   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 19:05     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-02 20:51       ` Marcelo Tosatti

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