Re: [take3] OOM documentation update [was: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!]

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:58:41PM -0800, David Rientjes (rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > +
> > +The task with the highest badness score is then killed.
> > +
> 
> Not quite, even after a task is selected for oom kill, the oom killer 
> still prefers to kill one of its children first if any have a different 
> mm.  See oom_kill_process().

Ok, if it was not clear from the description.

> You also don't mention the exception of OOM_DISABLE (oom_adj score of -17) 
> in your formula for how oom_adj impacts the points value.  Although its 
> already explained earlier, it should be mentioned here since a oom_adj is 
> an int and a right shift of 17 does not guarantee `points' will be 0.

It is written several lines above.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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