From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zps35.corp.google.com (zps35.corp.google.com [172.25.146.35]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id l8Q43Xk2020673 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:03:33 +0100 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nzfn1.prod.google.com [10.36.190.1]) by zps35.corp.google.com with ESMTP id l8Q43WFm009450 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:03:32 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so1168631nzf for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6599ad830709252103j40d8abd7s25ba25e8f1df1c88@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:03:31 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" Subject: Re: [patch -mm 7/5] oom: filter tasklist dump by mem_cgroup In-Reply-To: <20070925205746.dd74a887.pj@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6599ad830709251100n352028beraddaf2ac33ea8f6c@mail.gmail.com> <20070925181442.aeb7b205.pj@sgi.com> <6599ad830709251822q371c4a62rfdf8911720edb86c@mail.gmail.com> <20070925205746.dd74a887.pj@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul Jackson Cc: rientjes@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 9/25/07, Paul Jackson wrote: > Paul M wrote: > > You could print any tasks that share memory nodes (in their cpuset) > > with the OOMing task. > > Huh? I'm mystified. Why would printing tasks help avoid choosing > the wrong task to oom kill? This whole dump is purely for debugging, to help figure out post-mortem why the OOM occurred. By default the kernel prints all tasks; this is an attempt to strip out irrelevant tasks. Paul -- 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