Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer ...

Marko Macek
2004-11-07T09:26:37Z

Andries Brouwer wrote:

> I have always been surprised that so few people investigated
> doing things right, that is, entirely without OOM killer.

Agreed.

> This is not in a state such that I would like to submit it,
> but I think it would be good to focus some energy into
> offering a Linux that is guaranteed free of OOM surprises.

A good thing would be to make the OOM killer only kill
processes that actually overcommit (independant of overcommit mode).

The first step would be adding a value in /proc/$pid/...
somewhere that shows how much a process is overcommitted when
overcommit is enabled. This would allow important processes to be
fixed for all overcommit modes.

MArk