From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:54:11 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory In-Reply-To: References: <1202252561.24634.64.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com> Message-Id: <20080206105041.2717.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> 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: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Jeff Davis , balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli List-ID: Hi > > > The interesting thing is the use of total_vm and not the RSS which is used as > > > the basis by the OOM killer. I need to read/understand the code a bit more. > > > > RSS makes more sense to me as well. > > Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this to the RSS. > Specifically: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119977937126925 I agreed with you that RSS is better :) but.. on many node numa, per zone rss is more better.. - kosaki -- 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