From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <419CBB4A.2020207@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:10:02 -0600 From: Chris Friesen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage References: <20041105200118.GA20321@logos.cnet> <200411051532.51150.jbarnes@sgi.com> <20041106012018.GT8229@dualathlon.random> <1099706150.2810.147.camel@thomas> <20041117195417.A3289@almesberger.net> <419BDE53.1030003@tebibyte.org> <20041117210410.R28844@almesberger.net> <419BECB0.70801@tebibyte.org> <20041117221419.S28844@almesberger.net> <419C5B45.2080100@tebibyte.org> <20041118070137.T28844@almesberger.net> <1100789078.2635.73.camel@thomas> In-Reply-To: <1100789078.2635.73.camel@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Werner Almesberger , Chris Ross , Andrea Arcangeli , Jesse Barnes , Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hmm, what about embedded boxes without swap ? There you have only one > choice. Kill anything appropriate. I worked on a project that took the opposite approach from the "I'm a suspect" flag mentioned earlier. Processes could request immunity from the OOM killer as long as they were under a specified memory usage. Critical apps were thus protected as long as they were sane, while noncritical stuff could be killed at will. Chris -- 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