Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Jan 30 2010 - 12:45:17 EST


> I can't say I'm able to correctly read kernel code, but I believe
> default is set by:

It['s set by the distribution - the kerne has a default value but given
the same distributions are shipping the crap userspace that breaks with
no-overcommit do you think they'll set it to break their user apps ?

No.

> http://vedranf.net/tmp/oom.ogv (you can watch it using VLC for example)
>
> Actually anyone receiving this mail should see it. What do you think,
> what will customers rather choose if they see this?

Address that to the distributions. Their customers. Systems I set up for
people always have no overcommit enabled.

Alan
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