From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:09:47 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: the new VM In-Reply-To: <20000925163909.O22882@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Ingo Molnar , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:27:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i think an application should not fail due to other applications > > allocating too much RAM. OOM behavior should be a central thing and based > > At least Linus's point is that doing perfect accounting (at > least on the userspace allocation side) may cause you to waste > resources, failing even if you could still run and I tend to > agree with him. We're lazy on that side and that's global win in > most cases. OK, so do you guys want my OOM-killer selection code in 2.4? ;) (that will fix the OOM case in the rare situations where it occurs and do the expected thing most of the time) regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/