Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API

[Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:58:44AM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> Which begs the question, where did the userspace OOM policy daemon go? It,
> coupled with Rik's simple in-kernel last-ditch handler, should cover most
> eventualities without the need for nasty kernel kludges.

If I do the full blown variant of my patch: 

echo "my-kewl-oom-killer" >/proc/sys/vm/oom_handler

will try to load the module with this name for a new one and
uninstall the old one.

The original idea was an simple "I install a module and lock it
into memory" approach[1] for kernel hackers, which is _really_
easy to to and flexibility for nothing[2].

If the Rik and Linus prefer the user-accessable variant via
/proc, I'll happily implement this.

I just intended to solve a "religious" discussion via code
instead of words ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser

[1] http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ioe/oom_kill_api.patch
[2] That's why I called it "simpliest API ever" ;-)
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