Re: Improving OOM killer

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:41:41 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> 
> > > > init
> > > >   |- kdeinit
> > > >   |  |- ksmserver
> > > >   |  |  |- kwin
> > > >   |  |- <other>
> > > >   |- konsole
> > > >      |- make
> > > >         |- sh
> > > >         |  |- meinproc4
> > > >         |- sh
> > > >         |  |- meinproc4
> > > >         |- <etc>
> > > >
> > > >  What happens is that OOM killer usually selects either ksmserver (KDE
> > > > session manager) or kdeinit (KDE master process that spawns most KDE
> > > > processes). Note that in either case OOM killer does not reach the point
> > > > of killing the actual offender - it will randomly kill in the tree under
> > > > kdeinit until it decides to kill ksmserver, which means terminating the
> > > > desktop session. As konsole is a KUniqueApplication, it forks into
> > > > background and gets reparented to init, thus getting away from the
> > > > kdeinit subtree. Since the memory pressure is distributed among several
> > > > meinproc4 processes, the badness does not get summed up in its make
> > > > grandparent, as badness() does this only for direct parents.
> > >
> > > There's no randomness involved in selecting a task to kill;
> > 
> >  That was rather a figure of speech, but even if you want to take it 
> > literally, then from the user's point of view it is random. Badness of 
> > kdeinit depends on the number of children it has spawned, badness of 
> > ksmserver depends for example on the number and size of windows open (as its 
> > child kwin is a window and compositing manager).
> > 
> 
> As I've mentioned, I believe Kame (now cc'd) is working on replacing the 
> heuristic that adds the VM size for children into the parent task's 
> badness score with a forkbomb detector. 

I stopped that as I mentioned. I'm heavily disappointed with myself and
would like not to touch oom-killer things for a while.

I'd like to conentrate on memcg for a while, which I've starved for these 3 months.

Then, you don't need to CC me.

Bye,
-Kame

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