From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751201AbWJMGrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbWJMGrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:47:53 -0400 Received: from smtp110.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.220]:56218 "HELO smtp110.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751201AbWJMGrw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:47:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=05bU0eYufem+/X4eDi/CxgGRW6/ZmMqOo7FeZCSrja00pKCWZdiA9QHYbtVX7wx+n1JSFm6jJvAwi9f2jjsiTAHbrnRa009miCbM7hCZbJcUOvyPxfRp24F4vDxKatoo5qNpNAIlwxrn3gKycF0VTl0GWfOYGkuEBWOlORUFKgE= ; Message-ID: <452F3694.70104@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:47:48 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060216 Debian/1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Kirill Korotaev , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler References: <20061012120102.29671.31163.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061012120150.29671.48586.sendpatchset@linux.site> <452E5B4D.7000402@sw.ru> <20061012151907.GB18463@wotan.suse.de> <20061012150942.42e05898.akpm@osdl.org> <452F361D.1010306@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <452F361D.1010306@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > What I especially have in mind here is the OOM_DISABLE and > panic_on_oom sysctl > rather than expecting particularly much better general oom killing > behaviour. > Suppose you have a critical failover node or heartbeat process or > something > where you'd rather the system to panic and reboot instead of doing > something > silly... Oh, I already said that. Well anyway, I'm not sure exactly how people use these tunables, but I expect those that do, _really_ want them to work. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com