Re: User space out of memory approach

Alan Cox
2005-01-16T22:15:19Z

On Sul, 2005-01-16 at 10:06, Edjard Souza Mota wrote:
> What do you think about the point we are trying to make, i.e., moving the
> ranking of PIDs to be killed to user space? Or, making user have some influence
> on it? We were misunderstood because the patch we sent was to make "a slight"
> organization in the way OOM killer compute rates to PIDs, not to change its

Im sceptical there is an answer but moving it to user space (or at least
implementing /proc tunables in user space to experiment) certainly seems
to be the right way to find out.

> Well, while AF_TELEPATH socket is not on its way :) ... we may at
> least experiment
> different raking policies.

agreed