From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by postfix.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 6343016BC2 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:57:53 -0300 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:56:23 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init In-Reply-To: <3ABB2A19.D82B50A7@evision-ventures.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Dalecki Cc: Stephen Clouse , Guest section DW , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > > > This is due to the broken calculation formula in oom_kill(). > > > > Feel free to write better-working code. > > I don't get paid for it and I'm not idling through my days... Well, in that case you'll have to live with the current OOM killer. Martin wrote down a pretty detailed description of what's wrong with my algorithm, if it really bothers him he should be able to come up with something better. Personally, I think there is more important VM code to look after, since OOM is a pretty rare occurrance anyway. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ -- 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/