Re: Improving OOM killer

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 22:39:08 schrieb David Rientjes:
> > If we really want kernel to detect forkbombs (*), we'd have to establish 
> > completely separate infrastructure for that (with its own knobs for tuning 
> > and possibilities of disabling it completely).
> > 
> 
> That's what we're trying to do, we can look at the shear number of 
> children that the parent has forked and check for it to be over a certain 
> "forkbombing threshold" (which, yes, can be tuned from userspace), the 
> uptime of those children, their resident set size, etc., to attempt to 
> find a sane heuristic that penalizes them.

Wouldn't it be saner to have a selection by user, so that users that
are over the overcommit limit are targeted?

	Regards
		Oliver
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