Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2009-01-13 19:52:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:30:39PM -0800, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
> > The oom killer does not kick in until all caches are emptied. Our user
> > space code changes the oom_adj value of processes that are no longer
> > in the foreground so that they killed first (the process saves its
> > state but does not exit). To avoid excessive demand paging, the low
> > memory killer will kill these processes when the memory available
> > drops below a threshold.
> 
> That makes sense.  Can you provide a bit of documentation that I can
> include in the driver so that people can actually use the thing?  :)
> 
> Alan, does this sound like it should remain in the tree?

Maybe our oom killer should get a new tunable, telling it how
aggressive it should be, instead?
									Pavel
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