Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:26:48PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Maybe our oom killer should get a new tunable, telling it how
> >> aggressive it should be, instead?
> >
> > I was thinking that, and it would integrate better with the OLPC work
> > (which IMHO is a nicer interface for some stuff)
> >
> > You'd want two thresholds
> >
> > The 'arghhhh....' point where you start killing stuff
> > The 'uh oh...' point where an OLPC style low memory notifier kicks in
> 
> We actually use 6 different thresholds for killing processes. I don't
> know what all the classes are, processes with a higher oom_adj value
> can be killed with less impact to the user than processes with a lower
> oom_adj value. The first few classes only affect latency when
> switching apps, but later classes stop non critical background
> services and finally the foreground app. Another reason to not kill
> every process at the same threshold is that memory may not be free
> immediately when the process is killed.

But the lowmemorykiller android module doesn't have anything to do with
this, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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