From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:08:24 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills Message-Id: <20041118160824.3bfc961c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <419D383D.4000901@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> References: <20041111112922.GA15948@logos.cnet> <4193E056.6070100@tebibyte.org> <4194EA45.90800@tebibyte.org> <20041113233740.GA4121@x30.random> <20041114094417.GC29267@logos.cnet> <20041114170339.GB13733@dualathlon.random> <20041114202155.GB2764@logos.cnet> <419A2B3A.80702@tebibyte.org> <419B14F9.7080204@tebibyte.org> <20041117012346.5bfdf7bc.akpm@osdl.org> <419CD8C1.4030506@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20041118131655.6782108e.akpm@osdl.org> <419D25B5.1060504@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <419D2987.8010305@cyberone.com.au> <419D383D.4000901@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin =?ISO-8859-1?B?TU9LUkVKX18=?= Cc: piggin@cyberone.com.au, chris@tebibyte.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, andrea@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de List-ID: Martin MOKREJ__ wrote: > > Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for > so much memory and logs via syslog: > Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt) > > It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2, > from my user's view. We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003. Weird. -- 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