Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >
> > > Like anything that spawns a thread or process per request/client, or
> > > preallocates set of them which connect to the huge object like database.
> > > Most of the time database/server is killed first instead of comparably
> > > small clients.
> >
> > No, the reverse is true: when a task is chosen for oom kill based on the 
> > badness heuristic, the oom killer first attempts to kill any child task 
> > that isn't attached to the same mm.  If the child shares an mm, both tasks 
> > must die before memory freeing can occur.
>
> It is a theory, not a practice. OOM-killer most of time starts from ssh,
> database and lighttpd on the tested machines, when it could start in
> the reverse order and do not touch ssh at all. Better not from daemon
> itself, but its fastcgi spawned processes.

How does this feature relate to:

config ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER
        bool "Android Low Memory Killer"
        default N
        ---help---
          Register processes to be killed when memory is low

available in Staging drivers / Android?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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