From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:47:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099698456.2810.138.camel@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411051532.51150.jbarnes@sgi.com>
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:32 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Friday, November 05, 2004 12:01 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Comments?
>
> Sounds good, though we may want to do a couple of more things, we shouldn't
> kill root tasks quite as easily and we should avoid zombies since they may be
> large apps in the process of exiting, and killing them would be bad (iirc
> it'll cause a panic).
>
Yep, it makes sense, but it still does not fix the selection problem,
where e.g. sshd is killed while a out of control forking server floods
the machine with child processes.
Patch to address this:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109922680000746&w=2
tglx
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-05 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-05 20:01 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-05 23:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-11-05 23:47 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2004-11-06 1:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 1:26 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-06 1:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-11-06 1:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 9:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06 10:53 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-06 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 16:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-12-10 6:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-06 11:37 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-06 15:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 16:54 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-06 17:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 19:24 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-07 1:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 10:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06 1:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-06 10:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 22:54 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-17 23:27 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18 0:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18 0:28 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18 1:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18 8:20 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18 10:01 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18 14:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-18 15:10 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-06 10:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 15:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-06 17:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-07 0:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-07 11:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06 12:53 ` [PATCH] Remove OOM killer Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 10:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-07 9:26 ` Marko Macek
2004-11-08 16:27 ` [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage Marcelo Tosatti
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