Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?

[Chris Friesen]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:

> > The "oom-thresh" value maps to the max expected memory consumption for 
> > that process.  As long as a process uses less memory than the specified 
> > threshold, then it is immune to the oom-killer.
>
> You would need to specify the measure of memory used by your process;
> see the (still not resolved) RSS debate.

Currently we simply use mm->total_vm, same as the oom killer.

Chris
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