Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

[Alan Cox]

> > So how about you go and have a complain at the people who are causing
> > your problem, rather than the kernel.
> 
> That would pass completely unnoticed and ignored as long as overcommit
> is enabled by default.

Defaults are set by the distributions. So you are still complaining to
the wrong people.

> So, if you don't want to change the OOM algorithm why not fixing this
> bug then? And after that change the proc(5) manpage entry for
> /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory into something like:
> 
> 0: heuristic overcommit (enable this if you have memory problems with
>                           some buggy software)
> 1: always overcommit, never check
> 2: always check, never overcommit (this is the default)

Because there are a lot of systems where heuristic overcommit makes
sense ?

Alan
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