Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage

Chris Friesen
2004-11-18T15:14:23Z

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Hmm, what about embedded boxes without swap ? There you have only one
> choice. Kill anything appropriate.

I worked on a project that took the opposite approach from the "I'm a suspect"
flag mentioned earlier. Processes could request immunity from the OOM killer as
long as they were under a specified memory usage. Critical apps were thus
protected as long as they were sane, while noncritical stuff could be killed at
will.

Chris