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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>,
	lwoodman@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: add uid to "Killed process" message
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:09:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106201409090.2639@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308567876-23581-1-git-send-email-fhrbata@redhat.com>

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Frantisek Hrbata wrote:

> Add user id to the oom killer's "Killed process" message, so the user of the
> killed process can be identified.
> 

Notified in what way?  Unless you are using the memory controller, there's 
no userspace notification that an oom event has happened so nothing would 
know to scrape the kernel log for this information.

We've had a long-time desire for an oom notifier, not only at the time of 
oom but when approaching it with configurable thresholds, that would 
wakeup a userspace daemon that might be polling on notifier.  That seems 
more useful for realtime notification of an oom event rather than relying 
on the kernel log?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 11:04 Frantisek Hrbata
2011-06-20 21:09 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2011-06-21 11:36   ` Frantisek Hrbata
2011-06-21 19:07     ` David Rientjes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-20 10:16 Frantisek Hrbata

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