From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 01:52:58 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Message-ID: <20001010015258.C9520@athlon.random> References: <20001010002520.B8709@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from peterw@dascom.com.au on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:59:23AM +1000 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Waltenberg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Byron Stanoszek , MM mailing list , Ingo Molnar List-ID: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:59:23AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > never gets used, but the majority of kernels released ARE killable with memory > pressure. If those kernels are killable with memory pressure it's because of bugs in the kernel not because of missing oom killer heuristic. > That probably doesn't matter, the machine would be dead otherwise anyway. WITH The current task may be almost as big as the one that we choosed to kill that was hanging in a read from NFS and killing it (even if it wasn't selected by the oom killer) would allow the machine to run again. The NFS server could return alive only after several minutes instead. Andrea -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/