On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >You might want to take a look at the process selection
> >mechanism in my OOM killer patch (http://www.surriel.com/patches/).
>
> I read the process selection of the oom code in 2.2.15pre12 and it can be
> described this way:
>
> "try _not_ to kill tasks that are been started lots of time ago,
> that used lots of CPU resources, that are running
> non reniced and that are running as roo or with privilegies"
Interesting how you forget to quote the fact that "amount
of memory used" is the most heavily weighing factor in
deciding which is the hog...
People have tested my patch and it correctly identifies
the hog almost all of the time.
regards,
Rik
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