From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B107C6B008A for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:39:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so400203bwz.6 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE792B8.5020806@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:39:20 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVkcmFuIEZ1cmHEjQ==?= Reply-To: vedran.furac@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Memory overcommit References: <20091013120840.a844052d.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091014135119.e1baa07f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4ADE3121.6090407@gmail.com> <20091026105509.f08eb6a3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE5CB4E.4090504@gmail.com> <20091027122213.f3d582b2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE78B8F.9050201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , minchan.kim@gmail.com, Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli List-ID: David Rientjes wrote: > This is wrong; it doesn't "emulate oom" since oom_kill_process() always > kills a child of the selected process instead if they do not share the > same memory. The chosen task in that case is untouched. OK, I stand corrected then. Thanks! But, while testing this I lost X once again and "test" survived for some time (check the timestamps): http://pastebin.com/d5c9d026e - It started by killing gkrellm(!!!) - Then I lost X (kdeinit4 I guess) - Then 103 seconds after the killing started, it killed "test" - the real culprit. I mean... how?! -- 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