From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B25266B0073 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:11:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so807801fga.8 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE97861.1070902@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:11:29 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVkcmFuIEZ1cmHEjQ==?= Reply-To: vedran.furac@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Memory overcommit References: <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> <4AE792B8.5020806@gmail.com> <20091028135519.805c4789.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091028150536.674abe68.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091028152015.3d383cd6.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Hugh Dickins , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , minchan.kim@gmail.com, Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli List-ID: David Rientjes wrote: > Right, because in Vedran's latest oom log it shows that Xorg is preferred > more than any other thread other than the memory hogging test program with > your patch than without. I pointed out a clear distinction in the killing > order using both total_vm and rss in that log and in my opinion killing > Xorg as opposed to krunner would be undesireable. But then you should rename OOM killer to TRIPK: Totally Random Innocent Process Killer If you have OOM situation and Xorg is the first, that means it's leaking memory badly and the system is probably already frozen/FUBAR. Killing krunner in that situation wouldn't do any good. From a user perspective, nothing changes, system is still FUBAR and (s)he would probably reboot cursing linux in the process. -- 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