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From: Marko Macek <marko.macek@gmx.net>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer ...
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:26:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <418DEA55.2080202@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041106125317.GB9144@pclin040.win.tue.nl>

Andries Brouwer wrote:

> I have always been surprised that so few people investigated
> doing things right, that is, entirely without OOM killer.

Agreed.

> This is not in a state such that I would like to submit it,
> but I think it would be good to focus some energy into
> offering a Linux that is guaranteed free of OOM surprises.

A good thing would be to make the OOM killer only kill
processes that actually overcommit (independant of overcommit mode).

The first step would be adding a value in /proc/$pid/...
somewhere that shows how much a process is overcommitted when
overcommit is enabled. This would allow important processes to be
fixed for all overcommit modes.


	MArk
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-07  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-05 20:01 [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-05 23:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-11-05 23:47   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-06  1:20   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06  1:26     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-06  1:36       ` Jesse Barnes
2004-11-06  1:50       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06  9:47         ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06 10:53           ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-06 15:29             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 15:29           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 16:21             ` Hugh Dickins
2004-12-10  6:02               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-06 11:37         ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-06 15:32           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 16:54             ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-06 17:44               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 19:24                 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-07  1:16                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 10:11       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06  1:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-06 10:28       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-17 22:54       ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-17 23:27         ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18  0:04           ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18  0:28             ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18  1:14               ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18  8:20                 ` Chris Ross
2004-11-18 10:01                   ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-18 14:44                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-11-18 15:10                       ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-06 10:05     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06 15:44       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-06 15:52         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-06 17:09         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-07  0:48           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-11-07 11:21             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-06 12:53 ` [PATCH] Remove OOM killer Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 10:41   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-07  9:26   ` Marko Macek [this message]
2004-11-08 16:27 ` [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage Marcelo Tosatti

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