Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimablebraindamage

[Chris Friesen]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Hmm, what about embedded boxes without swap ? There you have only one
> choice. Kill anything appropriate. 

I worked on a project that took the opposite approach from the "I'm a suspect" 
flag mentioned earlier.  Processes could request immunity from the OOM killer as 
long as they were under a specified memory usage.  Critical apps were thus 
protected as long as they were sane, while noncritical stuff could be killed at 
will.

Chris
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