Re: User space out of memory approach

Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11T10:40:11Z

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:05 +0200, Edjard Souza Mota wrote:

> Yes, agreed. Our point was just to re-organize current OOM killer to release the
> kernel from doing rating, which is not its task any way.

It is a kernel task and will always be a kernel task. The kernel manages
memory resources and therefor is the place which is responsible to solve
the oom situation.

The userland daemon or what ever can only be a add on to give a hint for
the final decision.

tglx