From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:27:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu 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: Marco Colombo Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Marco Colombo 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. yep. The OOM killer heuristics *must not* penalize any other kernel feature. Rather introduce a orthogonal voluntary "importance" system-call, which marks processes as more and less important. This is similar to priority, it can only be decreased by ordinary users. 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/