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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:33:26 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010261823300.5762-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010261857580.15696-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

> from a number of people who would like to have the OOM killer
> do something "special" for their system.

if they are few and/or special enough, it makes a lot more sense
for them to just maintain a private patch.  actually, I've never
seen a discussion of why such needs couldn't be served by a "god" 
process that mlocks itself, runs at RT, etc.  there are some minor
details to work out (does it poll, or get some hook?)

> For instance, they want to have student programs killed before
> staff programs, or want to be able to specify some priveledged
> processes that will never be killed (or do other things that

which could all be accomplished by providing a simple priority:
even 8 bits of ordering would probably be overkill...

regards, mark hahn

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-26 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20001019122331.H840@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
2000-10-19 17:02 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-26 20:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-26 21:16     ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-26 22:33       ` Mark Hahn [this message]
2000-10-26 23:58       ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27  0:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-27  6:46           ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27  7:39             ` Gábor Lénárt
2000-10-27 13:54               ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 17:10         ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-27 17:36           ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 22:12             ` jfm2
2000-10-27 22:11               ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 22:43                 ` jfm2
2000-10-27 22:51                   ` James Sutherland
2000-10-28  4:48                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2000-10-28  7:29                   ` James Sutherland
2000-10-30  9:02               ` G?bor L?n?rt
2000-10-30  9:41                 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-30  9:53                   ` G?bor L?n?rt
2000-10-30 12:18                     ` J.A. Sutherland
2000-10-29 19:30             ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-29 20:41               ` James Sutherland

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