Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix oom killer doesn't work at all if system have > gigabytes memory (aka CAI founded issue)

KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-31T07:57:05Z

(2011/05/31 16:50), CAI Qian wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> - If you run the same program as root, non root process and
>>>> privilege
>>>> explicit
>>>> dropping processes (e.g. irqbalance) will be killed at first.
>>> Hmm, at least there were some programs were root processes but were
>>> killed
>>> first.
>>> [ pid] ppid uid total_vm rss swap score_adj name
>>> [ 5720] 5353 0 24421 257 0 0 sshd
>>> [ 5353] 1 0 15998 189 0 0 sshd
>>> [ 5451] 1 0 19648 235 0 0 master
>>> [ 1626] 1 0 2287 129 0 0 dhclient
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I can't reproduce this too. Are you sure these processes have a full
>> root privilege?
>> I've made new debugging patch. After applying following patch, do
>> these processes show
>> cap=1?
> No, all of them had cap=0. Wondering why something like sshd not been
> made cap=1 to avoid early oom kill.

Then, I believe your distro applying distro specific patch to ssh.
Which distro are you using now?