Re: Configurable OOM killer Re: old oom-vm for 2.4.32 (was oom killer in 2.4.23)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Kristian Peters wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> > The following patch makes OOM killer configurable (its the same as the 
> > other patches posted except its around CONFIG_OOM_KILLER).
> > 
> > I hope the Configure.help entry is clear enough.
> 
> What about the PF_MEMDIE issues Andrea has argued ? Are they solved by the added code in page_alloc.c ?
> 
> As Andrea has pointed out earlier, a yield() after out_of_memory() is safe and should be added too.

out_of_memory() calls yield() so its not necessary. 

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