Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness

[Vedran FuraÄ]

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0100
> Vedran FuraÄ <vedran.furac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>
>>> lengthy discussion on something I think is quite obviously better and
>>> I tried to change a couple of years back already (rss instead of
>>> total_vm).
>> Now that 2.6.32 is almost out, is it possible to get OOMK fixed in
>> 2.6.33 so that I could turn overcommit on (overcommit_memory=0) again
>> without fear of loosing my work?
>>
> I'll try fork-bomb detector again. That will finally help your X.org.
> But It may lose 2.6.33.
> 
> Adding new counter to mm_struct is now rejected because of scalability, so
> total work will need more time (than expected).
> I'm sorry I can't get enough time in these weeks.

Thanks for working on this! Hope it gets into 33. Keep me posted.

Regards,

Vedran


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