From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B326B0047 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:44:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:45:16 +0000 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling Message-ID: <20100130174516.2257d7fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B646CBE.6050404@gmail.com> References: <20100121145905.84a362bb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100122152332.750f50d9.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100125151503.49060e74.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126151202.75bd9347.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127085355.f5306e78.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126161952.ee267d1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127095812.d7493a8f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100128001636.2026a6bc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B622AEE.3080906@gmail.com> <20100129003547.521a1da9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B62327F.3010208@gmail.com> <20100129110321.564cb866@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B64272D.8020509@gmail.com> <20100130125917.600beb51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B646CBE.6050404@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: vedran.furac@gmail.com Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , rientjes@google.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" List-ID: > I can't say I'm able to correctly read kernel code, but I believe > default is set by: It['s set by the distribution - the kerne has a default value but given the same distributions are shipping the crap userspace that breaks with no-overcommit do you think they'll set it to break their user apps ? No. > http://vedranf.net/tmp/oom.ogv (you can watch it using VLC for example) > > Actually anyone receiving this mail should see it. What do you think, > what will customers rather choose if they see this? Address that to the distributions. Their customers. Systems I set up for people always have no overcommit enabled. Alan -- 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