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 1BD1B6B0071 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so650094iwn.14 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:17:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:17:29 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: oom killer and long-waiting processes From: Ryan Wang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org List-ID: Hi all, I have one question about oom killer: If many processes dealing with network communications, but due to bad network traffic, the processes have to wait for a very long time. And meanwhile they may consume some memeory separately for computation. The number of such processes may be large. I wonder whether oom killer will kill these processes when the system is under high pressure? thanks, -- 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