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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:08:49 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> what do you think about the attached patch? It increases the effective
> priority of a (kernel-) killed process, and initiates a reschedule, so
> that it gets selected ASAP. (except if there are RT processes around.)
> This should make OOM decisions 'visible' much more quickly.

Note that the OOM killer already has this code built-in,
but it may be a good idea to have SIGKILL delivery speeded
up for every SIGKILL ...

regards,

Rik
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