From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:05:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] oom: add oom_kill_asking_task sysctl Message-Id: <20070921020535.53548bee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Rientjes Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: > Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_asking_task', which will automatically kill > the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find > a memory-hogging target. I find the name a bit cheesy. I renamed it to oom_kill_allocating_task, but that's still not quite right. Really should be oom_kill_allocation_attempting_task, but sheesh. -- 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: email@kvack.org