Re: [PATCH 3/5] oom: oom-killer don't use proportion of system-ram internally

KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-24T01:21:58Z

(2011/05/24 7:48), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
>
>> I already suggested an alternative patch to CAI Qian to greatly increase
>> the granularity of the oom score from a range of 0-1000 to 0-10000 to
>> differentiate between tasks within 0.01% of available memory (16MB on CAI
>> Qian's 16GB system). I'll propose this officially in a separate email.
>>
>
> This is an alternative patch as earlier proposed with suggested
> improvements from Minchan. CAI, would it be possible to test this out on
> your usecase?
>
> I'm indifferent to the actual scale of OOM_SCORE_MAX_FACTOR; it could be
> 10 as proposed in this patch or even increased higher for higher
> resolution.

I did explain why your proposal is unacceptable.