Re: oom kill oddness.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:03:14PM -0400, Larry Woodman wrote:
 
 > Dave, this has been a problem since the out_of_memory() function was 
 > changed
 > between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.  Before this change out_of_memory() required 
 > multiple
 > calls within 5 seconds before actually OOM killed a process.  After the 
 > change(in 2.6.11)
 > a single call to out_of_memory() results in OOM killing a process.  The 
 > following patch
 > allows the 2.6.18 system to run under much more memory pressure before 
 > it OOM kills.

Some of these tests do seem to be readded in Linus' current tree.

[PATCH] oom: don't kill current when another OOM in progress

went in earlier today for eg.
I'm curious why these checks were ever removed in the first place though.

	Dave

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