Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0100
Vedran FuraÄ <vedran.furac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> > lengthy discussion on something I think is quite obviously better and
> > I tried to change a couple of years back already (rss instead of
> > total_vm).
> 
> Now that 2.6.32 is almost out, is it possible to get OOMK fixed in
> 2.6.33 so that I could turn overcommit on (overcommit_memory=0) again
> without fear of loosing my work?
> 
I'll try fork-bomb detector again. That will finally help your X.org.
But It may lose 2.6.33.

Adding new counter to mm_struct is now rejected because of scalability, so
total work will need more time (than expected).
I'm sorry I can't get enough time in these weeks.

Thanks,
-Kame

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/