From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <418DEA55.2080202@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:26:45 +0100 From: Marko Macek MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer ... References: <20041105200118.GA20321@logos.cnet> <20041106125317.GB9144@pclin040.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041106125317.GB9144@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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