Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 05:44:57 EST


On Gwe, 2003-09-12 at 05:50, Robert Love wrote:
> But I think its a lot more useful if we have alternative overcommit
> modes to use with it.
>
> An oom_nop might be a good idea. But some different policies, i.e. ones
> with more determinism but less smarts, are interesting.

The overcommit is currently handled by the security layer. It is
possible the oom callback should at least in part go that way so
a security policy can for example kill only student tasks 8)

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