Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The oom killer has currently some strange effects when triggered.
> It gets invoked multiple times and the selection of the task to kill
> does not take processes into account which fork a lot of child processes.
> The patch solves this by
> - Preventing reentrancy
> - Checking for memory threshold before selection and kill.
> - Taking child processes into account when selecting the process to kill

Hmm, this thread seems to be serious. I'll audit the policy adjustments
for issues with the mechanisms (e.g. killing kernel threads, races with
timeouts).


-- wli
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