From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:12:27 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel 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: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrea Arcangeli , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > netscape usually has child processes: the dns helper. > > so dns helper is killed first, then netscape. (my idea might not > make sense though.) It makes some sense, but I don't think OOM is something that occurs often enough to care about it /that/ much... My algorithm is already complex enough for my tastes (but seems to work quite well in the sense that it usually picks the "right" process in one shot and kills the process the user expects to be killed). 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/