Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:26:05PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx (Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:54:08 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov said:
> 
> > Who should adjust the scores for newly created processes? Who should
> > check that processes in the first group have negative oom ajustment and
> > in the second group a positive value? Who determines when its time to
> > ajust the scores?
> 
> Are you saying that you, as the box's administrator, don't know the answers
> to those questions?
> 
> Or are you asking what the actual method of implementation is - which process
> is supposed to write to (possibly some other process) oom_adjust, and when?

Unfortunately I do not know the answers. Since all parameters are highly
dynamic and can not be always automatically tuned. And we do not have a
daemon to watch created processes. And in the general case we can not
change the application.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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