From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:12:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Colombo Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: [...] > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > important. Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation nice +10 in order to let other people get more CPU when the need it. But if you put the logic "niced == not important" somewhere into the kernel, nobody will use nice anymore. I'd rather give a bonus to niced processes. I agree this is a small issue, the OOM killer job isn't "nice" at all anyway. B-) (at OOM time, I'd not even look at the nice of a process at all. But my point here is that you do, and you take it as an hint for process importance as percieved by the user that run it, and I believe it's just wrong guessing). .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ Colombo@ESI.it -- 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/