Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?

Chris Friesen
2006-12-07T21:27:00Z

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>The "oom-thresh" value maps to the max expected memory consumption for
>>that process. As long as a process uses less memory than the specified
>>threshold, then it is immune to the oom-killer.
>
> You would need to specify the measure of memory used by your process;
> see the (still not resolved) RSS debate.

Currently we simply use mm->total_vm, same as the oom killer.

Chris