From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <200411051532.51150.jbarnes@sgi.com> References: <20041105200118.GA20321@logos.cnet> <200411051532.51150.jbarnes@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:47:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1099698456.2810.138.camel@thomas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org