Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Andrea provided a quite good fix for the invokation problem. I'm just
> tracking down a different problem which was revieled by his changes.
> 
> The selection mechanism is currently taking a couple of things into
> account:
> 
>  - VM size
>  - nice value
>  - CPU time
>  - owner == root ?
>  - CAP_SYS_RAWIO
> 
> I found out, that it is neccecary to take the child processes into
> account to detect processes which fork a lot of childs.
> 
> The current mechanism rather kills sshd or portmap as they happen to
> have a bigger VM size than the process which forked a lot of childs.

Taking childs into account looks fine to me.
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