Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:51:27PM -0800, David Rientjes (rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Yeah, I proposed /dev/mem_notify being made as a client of cgroups there 
> in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123200623628685
> 
> How do you replace the oom killer's capability of giving a killed task 
> access to memory reserves with TIF_MEMDIE in userspace?

/dev/mem_notify is a great idea, but please do not limit existing
oom-killer in its ability to do the job and do not rely on application's
ability to send a SIGKILL which will not kill tasks in unkillable state
contrary to oom-killer.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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