From: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
To: Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: oom killer and long-waiting processes
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:56:30 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinXqriwgslQwjmjYaGjiyVK4oh1HZcTwxgWCZkh@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik6xP9vVEyW4QG-4RfZu-iEuHcl2pBV_-mfHP4y@mail.gmail.com>
Hi
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:17, Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Please refer to my article here :
http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html
Right now, I can not recall entirely about the rules, but IIRC the
processes that do I/O get lower "score". But that doesn't mean it
won't be killed if free memory amount is really low...
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Mulyadi Santosa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-10 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 7:17 Ryan Wang
2010-06-10 16:56 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2010-06-10 20:32 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-11 0:34 ` Ryan Wang
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