From: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: G?bor L?n?rt <lgb@viva.uti.hu>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:41:33 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010300940510.21656-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001030100215.A26676@viva.uti.hu>
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, G?bor L?n?rt wrote:
> > > Policy should be decided user-side, and should prevent the kernel-side
> > > killer EVER triggering.
> > >
> >
> > Only problem is that your user side process will have been pushed out
> > of memory by netcape and that in this kind of situations it will take
> > a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
>
> Nope. Use mlock().
> Second it's clear that we should implement a stupid kernel side OOM killer
> too in case of something goes really wrong, but that killer can be really
> stupid and constant part of system. In normal cases user space OOM killer
> should do the job for us ...
Yes, that's my plan. AIUI, Ingo is going to do the kernel hooks I need,
I'll do the userspace policy daemon?
James.
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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
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 [this message]
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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