From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A0E36B004D for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:01:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so135384bwz.6 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B0F31DB.6020009@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:56:43 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVkcmFuIEZ1cmHEjQ==?= Reply-To: vedran.furac@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness References: <20091028175846.49a1d29c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091029100042.973328d3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091125124433.GB27615@random.random> <4B0DC764.8040205@gmail.com> <20091126103234.806a4982.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20091126103234.806a4982.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , David Rientjes , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro List-ID: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0100 > Vedran FuraA? wrote: > >> Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> >>> lengthy discussion on something I think is quite obviously better and >>> I tried to change a couple of years back already (rss instead of >>> total_vm). >> Now that 2.6.32 is almost out, is it possible to get OOMK fixed in >> 2.6.33 so that I could turn overcommit on (overcommit_memory=0) again >> without fear of loosing my work? >> > I'll try fork-bomb detector again. That will finally help your X.org. > But It may lose 2.6.33. > > Adding new counter to mm_struct is now rejected because of scalability, so > total work will need more time (than expected). > I'm sorry I can't get enough time in these weeks. Thanks for working on this! Hope it gets into 33. Keep me posted. Regards, Vedran -- http://vedranf.net | a8e7a7783ca0d460fee090cc584adc12 -- 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