From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:27:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: the new VM In-Reply-To: <20000925162311.L22882@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: Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I'm not sure if we should restrict the limiting only to the cases that > needs them. For example do_anonymous_page looks a place that could > rely on the GFP retval. i think an application should not fail due to other applications allocating too much RAM. OOM behavior should be a central thing and based on allocation patterns, not pure luck or unluck. I always found it rude to SIGBUS when some other application is abusing RAM but the oom detector has not yet killed it off. Ingo -- 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/